by TurkeyPurge | Oct 26, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Warrants were issued to detain 121 former public workers who were earlier removed from their jobs at the Foreign Ministry over alleged ties to the Gülen movement, on Thursday. Police in 30 provinces carried out operations as part of an Ankara-based operation to detain...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 14, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A total of 4,521 judges and prosecutors were dismissed from their jobs over their alleged links to the Gülen movement, according to Turkey’s Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK). Speaking to state broadcaster TRT on Thursday, HSK’s inspection committee head...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 22, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
As part of a post-coup-attempt purge, the Turkish government has dismissed a total of 9977people from state institutions, and suspended another 5434 with new state of emergency decrees issued on Tuesday. According to the two new decrees, numbered 677 and 678, a total...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 13, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
A total of 109 judges have been expelled from the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) on the grounds that they have links to the faith-based Gülen movement, which is accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a coup attempt in July. Previously, 79 military judges and...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 30, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Taking a nap on a piece of worn-out construction plank, the 3.5-year-old-son of a Turkey’s one of the purge-hit schoolteachers has become a powerful symbol of the oppression that engulfed the country following the coup. The teacher known by the initials M.A. is among...
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