by TurkeyPurge | Mar 1, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
A total of 486 military members have been fired due to alleged links to the Gülen group since the end of a state of emergency declared after a 2016 coup attempt, the state-owned Anadolu news agency reported. According to the report, 90 members of the land forces, 77...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 18, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Adil Demirci, a Turkish origin German ciziten, has been put in pre-rial detention in Turkey over alleged “membership in a terrorist organization.” According to the German news portal Deutsche Welle, Demirci was initially detained by the Turkish police on...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 18, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A total of 23 academics and public servants have been fired from their jobs at Turkey’s Giresun University over their alleged links to the Gülen group, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt last year. According to the...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 7, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
The Council of Europe’s (COE) expert body on legal and constitutional affairs, the Venice Commission, on Friday said Turkey’s emergency decree laws, which were passed in the wake of a failed coup attempt in 2016, go beyond what is permitted by international standards...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 16, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
An İstanbul prosecutor has referred 11 journalists who were detained on Aug. 10 as part of an investigation targeting people over the use of a smart phone application known as ByLock to court for arrest, accusing them of terrorist organization membership, Hürriyet...