by TurkeyPurge | Dec 29, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
A total of 18,630 military members have been dismissed from the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) due to alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement since a coup attempt in July 2016, according to a spokesperson from the Defense Ministry, the state-run Anadolu news...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 7, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Nuran Yapalak, a Turkish woman and the mother of a 2-month-old baby has allegedly been held in solitary confinement in a Mersin prison for over a month over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which is accused of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. According to a...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 23, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
The governor’s office of the eastern Turkish province of Batman has announced that three neighborhood the heads (mukhtars) and one village head have been removed from office on terror charges. According to the Bianet, the mukhtars of Çay, Korik and Bağlar...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 14, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Ömer Lütfi Polat, a Turkish “matchmaker,” has been sentenced to 12 years, 9 months in prison over his links to Turkey’s Gülen movement, which is accused of masterminding a coup attempt in July 2016. Polat, according to the state-run Anadolu news agency, was a part of...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 2, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s Interior Ministry has launched an investigation into a recent decision of the municipal council of Tunceli in eastern Turkey to start calling the province by its original Kurdish name of “Dersim,” Turkish media reported on Friday. By a majority vote on May 7,...
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