A huge cleansing of Turkey’s state and other institutions is continuing as people from all walks of life find themselves being hunted down and taken into custody. At least 109 people were detained, while 21 were arrested over their alleged links to the Gulen movement, on July 8, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried […]
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A total of fifty-seven civilians were detained as part of ongoing operations targeting the followers of Turkey’s Gülen group due to their use of a smart phone application known as ByLock. According to the Cumhuriyet daily, police carried out opertaions in 32 districts of İstanbul throughout Friday. Turkish authorities believe ByLock is a communication tool
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A written instruction from Turkish General Staff asks Turkey’s military officials deployed abroad to spy on their former colleagues who were dismissed as part of post-coup crackdown, according to German media. The request, dated June 9, 2017, addresses all Turkish military attachments and embassies abroad as well as Turkish contingents at NATO bases and other
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At least 26 people were detained after police intervened into a group, gathered to read a press statement in solidarity with Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, two educators who started hunger strike after being dismissed in the aftermath of the July 15 coup, 2016 attempt. Police intervened into the protesters who gathered in Ankara’s Sakarya Street
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Police detained nine human rights advocates including Amnesty International Turkey Director İdil Eser at a hotel on Büyükada, one of Istanbul’s nine islands in the Sea of Marmara. The Cumhuriyet daily reported on Wednesday that police, acting on an anonymous tip, raided the hotel and detained Nalan Erkem and Özlem Dalkıran from the Allegiance Association,
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Fatih Tezcan, a pro-government public speaker and columnist, on Monday implied that main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu would be assassinated before he completes a “March of Justice” he launched on June 15. “I hope he [Kılıçdaroğlu] will be not killed until July 9 so we can hear what he has to
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The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that at least 39 people were detained over the past week on charges of making propaganda on social media on behalf of the Gulen movement and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIL). The ministry said investigations were launched against 180
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Turkish Defense Minister Fikri Işık has announced that there will be a new expulsion of officers in the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) and that an upcoming meeting of the Supreme Military Council (YAŞ) will be the opportunity to carry this out. Speaking to TRT Haber on Tuesday, Işık said: “We will never show any tolerance
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At least 31 people who used to work at Ankara University were detained as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement, on Tuesday. Accused of using ByLock smartphone application, the detainees included academics, lecturers, research assistants and employees who were dismissed or laid off from their jobs in the aftermath of the July 15, 2016 coup
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