by TurkeyPurge | Mar 26, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig’s powerful fiction Fantastic Night has been used as a way of communication among alleged coup plotters, a Turkish prosecutor claimed. Pro-government Aksam newspaper released screenshots of an indictment prepared against a teacher,...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 16, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s Education Ministry has destroyed at least 1.8 million copies of textbooks that mention the word “Pennsylvania,” or that include texts from government-targeted journalists, Birgün daily reported. Turkish government is proven anew to know no boundaries in...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 13, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s Çanakkale 18 Mart University (ÇOMÜ) has taken out of its libraries a total of 3,949 books written by the Islamic cleric Fethullah Gülen and his sympathizers, in the latest of similar paranoiac attempts proliferated in the aftermath of the July 15 coup...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 9, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
An Education Ministry bureaucrat has suggested that the government might consider removing “Milky Way” phrase from textbooks in order to avoid resemblance with the names of the schools linked to the Gülen movement, which Turkey accuses of masterminding the July 15...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 6, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s paranoia over the Gülen movement has reached new heights with the government banning mathematics textbooks due to questions involving the initials of Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen. “A textbook was banned just because it features Gülen’s initials in a...
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Kurdish politician sentenced to 20 months in prison for spreading “terrorist propaganda”
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Detention warrants issued for 113 people over alleged Gülen links: report
Visually impaired lawyer in prison for 275 days over Gulen links: report
Purge-victim disabled army veteran is in his 240th day of imprisonment on terror charges:
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One-armed man held in İzmir prison for 5 years over Gulen links: report