by TurkeyPurge | Dec 6, 2016 | Purge in Numbers
Turkish police on Tuesday morning detained Fatih Gürsul, an advisor to main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, on charges of using ByLock, a smart phone application that authorities claim is a communication tool between...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 22, 2016 | Purge in Numbers
With new state of emergency decrees issued on Tuesday, the Turkish government has shut down nine more local newspaper operating in various regions of Turkey, bringing the total number of media outlets closed in the aftermath of a coup attempt on July 15 to 195....
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 20, 2016 | Purge in Numbers
Thousands of people gathered in İstanbul on Sunday to protest the arrest of 10 deputies from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in a “We will not surrender” rally. Although the rally mainly aimed to protest the arrest of the Kurdish deputies, banners...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 19, 2016 | Purge in Numbers
A middle school teacher who was expelled from his job and subsequently arrested over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement was found hanged in prison in the northwestern province of Karabük on Saturday morning. Forty-three-year-old Behçet Emdi was one of...