by TurkeyPurge | Feb 20, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish teacher seeking asylum in Greece claimed that Turkey has been cooperating with smugglers to hunt those fleeing the country. The teacher, identified as Hakan, told International Business Times UK (IBTimes UK) he is familiar with a Turkish military officer who...
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by TurkeyPurge | Oct 26, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s Education Ministry closed down four private schools as part of an administrative investigation into what it calls Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETO). According to state-run Anadolu news agency on Thursday, Bahar Primary School and Bahar Secondary...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 11, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
21-year-old university student Tuğçe Ölçer died after jumping off a balcony as she was depressed in the face of her father’s imprisonment, according to media. A fourth-grade at the Istanbul-based Bogazici University’s Faculty of Education, Ölçer jumped to her death...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 13, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s Education Ministry has suspended 2,400 more teachers from their posts on Thursday in the latest wave of an ongoing witch-hunt against suspected sympathizers of the faith-based Gülen movement. The teachers were suspended according to a list that was prepared...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 18, 2016 | Anti-Gulen, Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses
Turkey’s Education Ministry is set to republish 58 state-distributed textbooks in order to avoid any subliminal messages from what the government calls Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ). The Undersecretary to Education Ministry Yusuf Tekin said the ministry...
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