by TurkeyPurge | Jun 30, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
16 university students hailing from Somalia, Djibouti, Guinea and Syria were detained over their alleged ties to the Gulen movement in Turkey’s Mersin province. State-run Anadolu news agency reported Saturday that police raided 10 premises believed to be populated by...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 23, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
At least 21 people have been detained during a police raid on a prep school established by teachers who were earlier removed from their jobs over their alleged ties to the Gulen movement. Anti-terror police in Turkey’s western province of Denizli raided a tutoring...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 8, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
At least 30 high school students were detained in Istanbul after they protested the government for its education policies. A video footage posted online on Friday showed riot police beating some of those students inside a police van. “We were held under custody for...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 2, 2018 | Int'l Reactions
A total of 1,250 academics from more than 100 organizations across 37 countries of the world have signed a petition asking for the release of 15 Boğaziçi University students in Turkey who were detained in March for holding a protest against an ongoing Turkish military...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 9, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Fifteen people in Kahramanmaras province were detained as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement, which the government accuses of leading the July 15, 2016 coup attempt, on Monday. State-run Anadolu news agency reported that 15 suspects including doctors,...
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Purge-victim Turkish judge dies of cancer
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