A prison guard who was arrested over alleged links to Gulen movement was found dead in a jail in the western province of İzmir on Sept. 1. Ömer Ç. was among the suspects arrested on Aug 31 in the probe launched by the İzmir Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office into the failed July 15 coup attempt. […]
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Newly appointed Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu told the press during a ceremony on Thursday that Turkey will continue its operations against members of the Gülen movement until every last member of it is gone. When taking over the ministry portfolio from his predecessor, Efkan Ala, Soylu underlined that this duty (to eliminate members of the
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An 80-year-old Turkish man with walking and speaking difficulties was handcuffed and detained by Turkish police on Sept. 1 over suspected links to the Gülen movement, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a July 15 coup attempt. Mustafa Türk was reportedly taken by police from his house in Turgutlu, Manisa province, handcuffed and driven to a
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Fatih Tezcan, a pro-government public speaker and columnist, said in a video he posted on social media that he is sure the Turkish state had embedded a secret agent in the Gülen movement and that now it is time for him to “terminate” Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen. During his 1.08-minute video, Tezcan curses the
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Turkish theologian Ömer Döngeloğlu said US-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen was an “infidel with corrupt blood,” and made it clear that there will be no mercy for people affiliated with Gulen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt. In a video footage released on social media last week, Döngeloğlu is
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The sacking of hundreds of university staff members, the suspension of approximately 81,494 civil servants, the arrest of more than 25,000 civilians and the detention of 40,360 others across Turkey are a precautionary measure to prevent “future crimes” that might be committed by the Gülen movement, according to Turkish columnist Mustafa Akyol. Akyol had tweeted
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday reiterated an earlier call he made to Turkish people, calling on them to report followers of the faith-based Gülen movement in their surroundings to the police and prosecutors’ offices so that they can be prosecuted for their links to the movement. Speaking at a public rally in the
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A notary clerk attacked Dr. Nazire Terzi, the widow of Gen. Semih Terzi, who was allegedly part of a coup attempt on July 15 and was killed by another officer, the Cumhuriyet daily reported. Dr. Terzi reportedly went to a notary public on Aug. 15 for a power of attorney to transfer her assets to
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Following the Turkish government’s sudden decision to prematurely release nearly 40,000 convicts despite the gravity of their crimes to make space in prisons in a post-coup purge, the murderer of Father Andrea Santoro of the Saint Maria Catholic Church is free before serving his time. Oğuzhan Aydın, who was convicted of killing the Catholic priest
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Prize-winning novelist and journalist Aslı Erdoğan who was arrested last week for alleged links with the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has said she is being treated in a way in prison that could give permanent damage to her body. “They have not given me my medicine for 5 days. I am diabetic and my
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