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Kindergarten principal commits suicide after wife suspended from job in coup probes

The lifeless body of a kindergarten principal, Ali Derebaşı, whose wife was among the thousands of teachers who have been suspended from their posts due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, was found hanging in his school in Kayseri province on Monday, the first day of the new academic year in Turkey. The 42-year-old […]

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Turkish whistleblower’s son arrested after father hints at gov’t links to ISIL

The 19-year-old son of a former senior counter-terrorism official in Turkey was arrested over coup charges after his father implicated links between Turkish government and the terrorist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Ahmet Yayla, who served as the chief of the Counter-Terrorism and Operations Division of Turkish National Police between 2010 and 2012

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Police detain 22 high school students protesting gov’t purge of teachers

At least 22 high school students were detained while they were protesting the government’s suspending of more than 4,500 teachers over terrorism charges in Diyarbakır, on Monday. Some 30 students gathered on Diyarbakır’s Şeyh Sait Square holding banners that read: “Don’t touch my teacher,” or “We total not 12K but millions,” in clear reference to

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Man protesting detention of students also detained

A Diyarbakır man was detained after he protested detentions of 22 high-school students who were also protesting the government’s purge of teachers over terrorism charges, on Monday. Police failed to dispel a group of high-school students who gathered on Diyarbakır’s Şeyh Sait Square in protest of the government’s suspending of more than 4,500 teachers over terrorism

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Another 6 civil servants arrested in Antalya over alleged Gülen links

Six out of the 36 public employees who were recently detained in Alanya district of Antalya province in southern Turkey as part of an ongoing witch-hunt against the Gülen movement, were arrested on Sunday. Police detained 36 people who work at various public institutions in Alanya on Sept. 7. Thirty of the detainees were released

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‘Murder not suicide,’ says daughter of prosecutor killed in prison

The daughter of former Bursa public prosecutor Seyfettin Yiğit, who allegedly committed suicide in a prison bathroom on Friday morning after he was put behind bars over Gülen movement ties, said on Saturday that his father was murdered, refusing claims that his father is linked to the movement. “He was not a Fethullahçı [member of

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Veteran who lost legs in PKK attack removed from civil service over Gulen links

A Kırıkkale man who lost his both legs in a PKK attack while doing military service in the eastern province of Bingöl, has been sacked from a state institution after authorities found out that private colleges linked to Gülen Movement granted scholarship to his children. The movement stands accused of orchestrating the July 15 coup

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Turkey overshadows war-hit Syria in number of academics seeking asylum elsewhere

Turkey’s purge of academia has created by far greater impact than Syrian civil war in the number of scholars seeking safety outside their home countries, according to organizations that help at-risk academics. The New York-based Scholar Rescue Fund, a part of the Institute of International Education (IIE) has received an unprecedented number of requests for

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Journalist reveals organizational structure of Turkey’s purge commissions

Opposition newspaper Sözcü’s Ankara bureau chief Saygı Öztürk has uncover the main actors in Turkey’s recent cleansing of dissenting voices from within state institutions, particularly of sympathizers of the Gülen Movement. In his Sunday column, Öztürk said presidents of 5-to 6-person commissions set up within all state bodies call the shots on who would be

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Irish businessman complains respected Turkish solicitor arrested on coup charges

An Irish businessman, known by initials M.G., is desperately seeking help for his solicitor in Turkey who were arrested as part of an investigation into the Gülen Movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt. In a recent letter to Turkey Purge, M.G. makes appeal to find a way out for

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