by TurkeyPurge | Jan 27, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Four people were detained after they stood out against a government-employed, local imam who had asked worshippers to pray for Turkey’s offensive in the Syrian city of Afrin during a Friday sermon. Media reported that a group of worshippers left the Friday prayer at...
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 | Mar 31, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish government has been spying on its own citizens in 35 countries with the help of its diplomatic outposts, according to German weekly magazine Der Spiegel. “The diplomatic cables contain information collected by Turkish diplomatic outposts in 35 countries,” said...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 16, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Following attacks and threats against Gülen movement sympathizers by Turks across Europe, a French court has handed down verdicts punishing two men for vandalizing an educational institution and sending death threats, the TR724 news portal reported on Friday. A man...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 18, 2016 | Anti-Gulen, Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses
The discriminative practices backed by Turkey’s top state-officials has taken a new turn with sympathizers of the Gülen Movement (a.k.a. Hizmet) being denied entry to a mosque in Germany. According to a video posted by Mehmet Cerit, the editor of Zaman Vandaag, an...