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Columnist says purge of Gulenists a move to prevent “future crimes”

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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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Turkey asks Cambodia to shut down Gülen schools

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Turkey’s ambassador to Cambodia, İlhan Tuğ has asked authorities in the Asian country to close down education institutions affiliated with the Gulen Movement, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt. According to state-run Anadolu Agency correspondents in the capital city of Phnom Penh, Tuğ officially demanded from Cambodia’s Foreign Ministry

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Turks now have internet hotline to report Gulenists to gov’t

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Turks can now report people affiliated with Gulen Movement around them and lodge complaints through an Internet site set up at the initiative of the Turkish government. The portal www.fetoihbar.net has been named after FETO, an abbreviation that the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan coined in order to describe the alleged network of the Gülen movement’s sympathizers

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Read Turkey’s strange traffic signs: ‘Caution! Beware of FETÖ’

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Strange traffic signs erected in Ferizli district of Sakarya province show that Turkish authorities know no bounds in dehumanisation of Fethullah Gülen, the Islamic scholar whom the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt. “Caution! Beware of FETÖ,” read the controversial warnings in reference to what even Turkey Purge does not understand. FETÖ

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‘Parallels not allowed’ banner hung on Turkish restaurants

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Huge banners on the walls of two restaurants in Istanbul read the same discriminatory sentence: “Parallels and sympathizers of parallels not allowed inside the restaurant,” a clear reference to Gulen Movement which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup. Nevada Steakhouse and Sarıhan İşkembe, the two restaurants located in Başakşehir quarter, hung separate

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VIDEO: Turkey turns Gulen-affiliated science school into religious school

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A private school affiliated with the Gulen movement in the eastern province of Van has been turned into a religious vocational schools known as “İmam-hatip” high schools. In a video footage released on social media on Sunday, Turkish authorities affiliated with the Van Governor’s Office are seen carrying a banner of the religious vocational school

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43 journalists arrested, while 100 with detention warrants after Turkey’s coup attempt

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Some 43 journalists have been arrested as part a probe into the July 15 failed coup attempt, while the number of detention warrants issued against professionals exceeded 100, according to a journalism association. The Istanbul-based Platform for Independent Journalism (P24) said that with the Aug. 11 arrest of now-closed daily Zaman correspondent Ayşenur Parıldak, the

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Pro-gov’t business club vows fight against Gulen sympathizers in economy

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The Independent Industrialists and Businessmen’s Association (MÜSİAD) is ready to take all necessary actions to fully root out any businessmen related to Gülen Movement, Nail Olpak, the president of the organization is quoted by Daily Sabah. Olpak also said MÜSİAD has been carrying out investigations to cancel the memberships of Gülen sympathizers, if any. President

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Pro-gov’t columnist issues death threat to dissident journos

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  Pro-government media threatened critical journalists with extrajudicial killings. At Chanel 24, Ersoy Dede and Hikmet Genc were talking how to get rid of critical journalists living in exile by reminding ASALA case. Journalist Ersoy Dede said that `In this country, I witnessed how ASALA was finished. In one morning we will wake up and

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