Pro-Kurdish Amedspor attacked by nationalist hooligans
Pro-Kurdish Amedspor has been attacked by nationalist fans of Konya Anadolu Selçukluspor after its 3-0 victory in an away game on Sunday. While the Diyarbakır-based club defeated Selçukluspor in the third division match the team bus was attacked before it left Konya,...
Pro-Kurdish football team attacked by police, opponent club members
Pro-Kurdish football club Cizrespor players and managers were subjected to racist insults before they were physically attacked by fans and personnel of the opponent Bayburt Grup Özel İdare Gençlikspor (Bayburt GÖİ), and police officers. Cizrespor faced Bayburt GÖİ on...
Former UETD official spies on Gülen followers in Germany
Tuba Sarıaltın, former deputy head of the Union of European Turkish Democrats’ (UETD) women’s branches in Germany’s Bavaria region, who also works voluntarily for a refugee foundation, is collecting intelligence about Turkish families seeking asylum in Germany in...
Man fired over name similarity with Gülen, governor offers legal aid to change name
A woman told Çorum Governor Necmeddin Kılıç during a meeting on Thursday that her son was fired from his job and has been unemployed for months because his given name is the same as that of US-based Turkish scholar Fethullah Gülen, whom Turkey’s ruling party and...
Leftist newspaper’s distributor abducted, beaten by unknown thugs
Left-wing Turkish newspaper Evrensel reported on Sunday that Zeynep Tunçel, its reader and distributor were abducted and beaten by a group of unidentified people who accused her of resisting to the government. Tunçel took a phone call from an unknown number at 8.30 am...
Opposition CHP members attacked, detained over call to protect secularism
Three people from the main opposition Republican Peoples’ Party’s (CHP) youth branch in Sakarya’s Serdivan district were battered by an angry mob who chanted “La Ilaha Illallah,” over a banner they hanged inside a shopping mall. Banners reportedly read: “Turkey is...
Radical mob attacks İstanbul University, chants ‘Long live our Islamic struggle’
Ten masked Islamists have gone on a rampage, attacking İstanbul University’s faculty of arts and sciences with clubs and declaring that their “fight for Islam” will continue until the end. A 59-second video clip that was posted on social media shows men in black masks...
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[VIDEO] Man beaten up in İstanbul after mistaken as Reina attacker
A group of locals in İstanbul’s Pendik district on Monday attempt to lynch a Kyrgyz man who they mistook for a suspect in an İstanbul nightclub attack on New Year’s Day. Turkish authorities released the photos of the man suspected to be the Islamic State in Iraq and...
Pro-gov’t speaker high fives 2-year-old son for cursing Gülen
Fatih Tezcan, a pro-government public speaker and columnist, teaches his 2-year-old son hatred in a video he posted on social media on Jan. 1, gives high fives as a reward for profanity and wishes for the death of Turkish scholar Fethullah Gülen. During his 35-second...
Turkey’s outspoken fashion designer attacked by mob, detained by police at İstanbul airport
Famous fashion designer Barbaros Şansal was beaten up by an angry mob who gathered at an Istanbul Airport tarmac in protest of a controversial video Şansal posted on the New Year’s Eve, late on Monday. The protesters, turned out to be employees of Turkish Ground...
Alevi cultural center in Germany attacked by ultranationalist group
An Alevi cultural center in German town of Mülheim was attacked by an ultranationalist group which sprayed insulting message and a red cross on the walls of it. “Blow out the candles, you dogs,” read a sentence in red paint marked near the door of the center. A cross...
DETAILS: At least 35 killed, 40 injured in İstanbul nightclub attack
At least 35 people were killed and 40 injured in an armed attack on a popular nightclub in the early hours of New Year’s Day in the Ortaköy district of İstanbul. According to İstanbul Governor Vasip Şahin, “This was a terror attack, and at least 35 people were killed...
Turkey-funded mosque in Germany bans entry for Gulenists
A mosque, funded by Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs, in Schweinfurt city in Germany’s Bavaria region banned entry for the followers of Gülen movement, inspired by the views of US-based Turkish scholar Fethulla Gülen who Turkish government accuses him of...
Turkish firm discriminates against purge victims in controversial job posting
Discrimination in post-coup Turkey has reached a new level with companies discriminating against those who have lost their jobs in investigations targeting the government’s perceived enemies. Seramik Dünyası, a building materials seller in the Aegean province of...
Leaked doc shows Turkey’s religious official in Belgium spied on Gülen movement
A document dated Sept. 26, 2016 shows that a Turkey’s religious official in Belgium profiled Gülen movement expatriates living in the European country and their activities, in response to an earlier call from Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet). The...
Turkey’s Justice Ministry asks personnel to spy on colleagues: leaked doc
Turkey’s Justice Ministry has handed out pages of forms to its personnel asking if they know any colleague linked to terrorist organizations or the government’s perceived enemies, particularly the Gülen movement, according to a social media post. With the documents...
Man attacking Fazıl Say concert with machete detained
A man in Turkey’s Western province of İzmir showed up with a machete in his hand during famous pianist Fazıl Say’s concert in the hall asking for the cancellation of the concert. The police detained the attacker. Reportedly, the man with machete chanted ‘Allahu akbar’...
Turkey’s Religious Directorate says profiled expats via mosques in 38 countries
Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) has gathered intelligence via imams from 38 countries on the activities of suspected followers of Gülen movement, according to Hürriyet Daily News. In its briefing to the parliamentary coup commission, Diyanet said...