by TurkeyPurge | May 27, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
At least 20 people were detained as part of a Denizli-based investigation into the Gulen movement, media reported Monday. Police carried out raids at different locations in Denizli, Istanbul, Ankara, Bursa, Aydın, Van, Uşak and Bayburt provinces and detained the...
by TurkeyPurge | May 4, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A total of 34,000 teachers have been dismissed along with 5,882 academics and 1,372 administrative personnel at universities as part of the Turkish government’s post-coup crackdown, a recent report said. Human Rights Association’s (IHD) Istanbul branch released a...
by TurkeyPurge | May 25, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Two doctors, a nurse and a former public servant were sentenced to 6 years and 3 months in prison each on accusation of membership to Gulen movement, on Wednesday. Turkish authorities accuse the movement of masterminding the July 15ö 2016 coup attempt and calls it a...
by TurkeyPurge | May 23, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Detention warrants were issued for 144 people as part of an Istanbul-based operation against the Gulen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15, 2016 coup attempt, on Tuesday. The investigation reportedly targets the movement followers with...
by TurkeyPurge | May 22, 2017 | Human Tragedies, Turkey’s Exiled Journalists Speak Out
Under post-coup pressure from the government, companies in Turkey prefer not to employ dismissed public workers, leaving them to what Amnesty International calls a civil death. H.Ü and his wife, both teachers with experience of 10 years each, were dismissed from their...