by TurkeyPurge | Sep 30, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish security forces carried out 68,464 counter-terrorism operations in the past 12 months, according to Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu. Speaking to state-run Anadolu news agency on Thursday, Soylu said some 40,000 of those operations targeted the outlawed...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 2, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A total of 113,260 were detained as part of investigations into the Gulen movement after July 15 coup attempt, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu announced on Sunday. The government put the blame for the coup attempt on the movement. Of them, 47,155 were further taken...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 1, 2016 | Hate Crime, Hate Speech
Newly appointed Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu told the press during a ceremony on Thursday that Turkey will continue its operations against members of the Gülen movement until every last member of it is gone. When taking over the ministry portfolio from his...
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