by TurkeyPurge | Oct 12, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
At least 139,141 copies of books were removed from 1,142 public libraries across Turkey as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown, according to the Culture and Tourism Ministry data. Minister Numan Kurtulmuş said during a parliamentary meeting on Oct 11 that...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 6, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish parliament on Friday passed five of the decrees issued by the Turkish government during a state of emergency declared in the wake of a military coup attempt in July to the country’s Constitutional Court for cancellation, T24 News portal reported. While the...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 18, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Opposition newspaper Sözcü’s Ankara bureau chief Saygı Öztürk has uncover the main actors in Turkey’s recent cleansing of dissenting voices from within state institutions, particularly of sympathizers of the Gülen Movement. In his Sunday column, Öztürk said presidents...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 18, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Six out of the 36 public employees who were recently detained in Alanya district of Antalya province in southern Turkey as part of an ongoing witch-hunt against the Gülen movement, were arrested on Sunday. Police detained 36 people who work at various public...
Emotional reunion of 9-year-old daughter, disabled father after 20 months in Turkish prison
Dementia-suffering Kurdish politician released from prison
The head of Turkey’s doctors’ union sent to prison on terror accusations
Turkish police detain 543 people in 59 provinces over alleged Gülen links
Son of purge-victim judge jumps to his death from İstanbul’s Galata Tower
Constitutional court rejects jailed Kurdish youngster’s appeal for release
This Kurdish youngster in 6th year in Silivri prison on coup charges
14 more military cadets set free after 6 years in prison
Turkish gov’t seeks extradition of critical journalist Cevheri Güven
Purge-victim police officer dies after accident at a mining site in Gebze