by TurkeyPurge | Jun 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
Mehmet Aybek, a member of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) youth wing who shared a photo of an MP5 machine gun on Facebook, was briefly detained and then released on Thursday, the Cumhuriyet daily reported. According to the report, Aybek had posted a photo of...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
A Kastamonu-based university student, identified as M.A., received a 6-years-and-3-months prison term over terror charges, on Tuesday. Under arrest for some time over his/her use of ByLock mobile application, M.A. was sentenced for alleged membership to the Gulen...
by TurkeyPurge | May 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
At least 20 former personnel of the government-closed Mevlana University were taken under custody over coup charges on Thursday. The detainees are accused of membership to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15, 2016 coup...
by TurkeyPurge | May 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
At least 12 people including housewives, teachers, university personnel and some police officers were taken into custody for interrogation as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement, on May 18. Igdir based operation accuses the suspects of membership the...
by TurkeyPurge | May 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
President of the European Parliament’s Socialists & Democrats Group Gianni Pittella on Friday said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is closing the door to Europe, calling on him to immediately release all political prisoners. Paying a two-day visit to...
by TurkeyPurge | May 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
Detention warrants were issued for 102 people as part of an investigation into the alleged sympathizers of the Gülen movement, on Friday. The operation targets the movement’s allegedly secretive clique within the country’s stock exchange, Borsa İstanbul (BİST). Police...
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