by TurkeyPurge | Nov 18, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The wives of former police chiefs including Ömer Köse, Nazmi Ardıç and Mustafa Demirhan, who led corruption operations against the government in 2013 and an operation into the Iran-backed Tevhid-Selam network in Turkey in 2010, have been detained, the TR724 news...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 23, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
Turkey has been ordered to pay 54,400 euros in damages by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to the Cem Foundation for violating its Alevi citizens’ freedom of faith and discriminating against cemevis, Alevi worship houses, the Diken news website reported on...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 24, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Five people including cousins of the Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen have been detained in Erzurum’s Korucuk village. Earlier this month, police also detained a nephew of Gülen in İstanbul and his niece in Balıkesir. Critics have lambasted the government for a massive...