Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım on Monday called on teachers in the country not to show any tolerance to their colleagues who are sympathizers of the faith-based Gülen movement or the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and not to allow them to continue doing their jobs. “Dear teachers, I have an important request of you: Never […]
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Dutch Education Minister Jet Bussemaker announced that there is a parliamentary debate over the Islamic University of Rotterdam for cancellation of the “university status” of the institution due to Rector Ahmet Akgündüz’s repeatedly hateful and discriminatory remarks against Turkey’s minorities and the Gülen movement. According to the amendment that Bussemaker is working on, the government
Dutch police on Wednesday detained a second Turkish man, a supporter of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on suspicion of death threats and hate speech made against Erdoğan critics in the Netherlands. Rotterdam police detained a 43-year-old Dutchman of Turkish descent who is suspected of having threatened critics of the Turkish president and backers of US-based
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“Traitors, putschists and paralells not are allowed in,” the huge banner hung on the side of a restaurant in Denizli’s Acıpayam district stated in a clear reference to Gulen Movement which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup. Parallel refers to members of the alleged terrorist network of the movement within state institutions.
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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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Turkey purge has reached a new high with government supporters openly targeting people with the alleged ties to the Gulen Movement, which President along with top state officials accuse of masterminding the failed coup attempt. “Dear Altındağ District Director of Education Şefika Biçer, Murat Şen who was appointed by you has turned out to be
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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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A Turkish prosecutor in İzmir, investigating the financial links of the Gülen movement, which is inspired by the views of US-based Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, has claimed that the organizational structure of the group is the same as that of the Mormon Church and the Church of Scientology in the United States and that
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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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