by TurkeyPurge | Aug 5, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
I.K., a former deputy police chief in Gaziantep’s Sehitkamil district who was dismissed in the government’s post-coup crackdown, was detained when he visited a local State of Emergency (OHAL) commission in Sivas to reclaim his rights. The government earlier...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 11, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Fatih Tezcan, a pro-government public speaker and columnist, said in a video message posted on social media on Friday that people should gather in front of Silivri Prison, which mainly hosts people jailed over links to the Gülen movement, and set it on fire, similar...
by editor | Mar 19, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A total of ten teachers who were claimed to be using ByLock, a smart phone messaging application, were arrested as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, pro-gov’t daily Karar reported on Sunday. Turkish prosecutors claim that Bylock is the top...
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...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 9, 2016 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses
Turkey’s Sivas University pulled off the shelf of its libraries all copies of the books written by Fethullah Gülen and his alleged supporters and destroyed them via a shredder. The US-based Islamic scholar Gülen is accused by the Turkish government of masterminding...
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