by TurkeyPurge | Jul 6, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Ibrahim Anaz, one of the executives at a Brussels-based association sympathetic to the Gulen movement, was stabbed by a family member who is a supporter of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to local media. Anaz was stabbed and seriously wounded by one of his...
by TurkeyPurge | May 6, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
The Cologne-based Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DİTİB) has been awarded the BigBrotherAward 2017 in the category of politics for its spying activities against the critics of the President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the Gülen movement in particular. “The...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 16, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish consulates in Germany have been organizing events for Turkish parents and asking them to spy on critics of the President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Turkey at German schools, according to an education trade union, GEW (Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft)....
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 14, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey has been operating an informer network via its embassy in Vienna that targets critics of President Tayyip Erdogan, according to an Austrian opposition lawmaker, Peter Pilz. Pilz also said the controversial network promotes Erdoğan’s policies and receives...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 25, 2017 | Anti-Gulen, Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses
In the wake of a recent admission by the German-based Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DİTİB), which said some of its imams had acted as informants against sympathizers of the Gülen movement, a German paper reported on Tuesday that spying allegations...