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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Dementia-suffering Kurdish politician released from prison
The head of Turkey’s doctors’ union sent to prison on terror accusations
Turkish police detain 543 people in 59 provinces over alleged Gülen links
Son of purge-victim judge jumps to his death from İstanbul’s Galata Tower
Constitutional court rejects jailed Kurdish youngster’s appeal for release
This Kurdish youngster in 6th year in Silivri prison on coup charges
14 more military cadets set free after 6 years in prison
Turkish gov’t seeks extradition of critical journalist Cevheri Güven
Purge-victim police officer dies after accident at a mining site in Gebze