by TurkeyPurge | Nov 27, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said at a gendarmerie command meeting on Wednesday that at least 500 Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants are still in Turkey, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. “We will make all preparations and use all our...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 12, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Detention warrants were issued for 102 people over their suspected use of ByLock, an encrypted mobile app that Turkish government sees as a communication tool among followers of the Gulen movement, on Tuesday. Anadolu Agency said that 45 of those suspects were already...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 16, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
At total of 217,971 people in Turkey have been detained over their links to the Gulen movement so far, Turkey’s Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said Thursday. “62,730 (police) operations have been made against Gulenists as of today. …As a result of these operations,...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 30, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish security forces detained a total of 62,402 people in 2017 over alleged links to the Gülen movement, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Wednesday based on data released by the Interior Ministry. The Gülen movement is accused by the Justice and...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 16, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The Turkish government has, so far, arrested at least 48,739 people over ties the Gulen movement, according to the Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu. During a budget speech on Wednesday, Soylu said 48,739 people have been arrested over affiliation to the movement....