by TurkeyPurge | Nov 20, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
At least 666 people were detained as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement over the past week. In a written statement on Monday, the Interior Ministry said 666 people were rounded up in operations targeting the Gülen movement between Oct 13-20. Turkish...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 6, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
At least 674 people were detained as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement over the past week. In a written statement on Monday, the Interior Ministry said 674 people were rounded up in operations targeting the Gülen movement in between Oct 30 to Nov 6....
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 3, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
İbrahim Apaydın, an engineer who was removed from his job as part of the Turkish government’s post-coup crackdown against its critics, says refugee camps abroad are filled with well-educated people hailing from Turkey. Dismissed from his job as an engineer at Istanbul...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 8, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The number of complaints filed over post-coup rights abuses has hit 101,304, according to state-run Anadolu news agency. More than 146,500 people have lost their jobs since last summer as part of the government’s crackdown in the aftermath of the July 15, 2016 failed...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 3, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Four lawyers and six law students who were detained as part of an investigation into the leftist İstanbul People’s Law Bureau on Thursday were subjected to police mistreatment in custody and awakened with a Janissary march on Friday morning, a news portal reported....
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