by TurkeyPurge | Nov 25, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
At a time when the Turkish government has been waging an all-out war on the faith-based Gülen movement, the country’s prime minister, Binali Yıldırım, has accused the movement of carrying out an operation to ruin the Turkish economy. “Since it failed to make its...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 21, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Nearly 115,000 objections have been filed against government decisions to dismiss people with alleged links to the Gülen movement from state positions, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said on Friday. The government pinned the blame for a July 15 coup attempt in Turkey...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 10, 2016 | Anti-Gulen, Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım told fellow deputies from Justice and Development Party (AKP) in a meetin on Friday that they will be relentless in rooting out FETO, a derogatory term coined by AKP government to refer to Gülen movement symphatizers, from...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 27, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Kenan İpek, a Turkish prosecutor who was relegated from İzmir to Gaziantep shortly after he opened a tender rigging case that implicated the brother-in-law of Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım in early 2014, has been dismissed from profession over his alleged ties to the...
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