by TurkeyPurge | Apr 24, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The Maarif Foundation, which was established by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government in 2016, has taken over 76 schools linked to the Gülen movement in 10 countries, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Tuesday. According to the report,...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 24, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Wednesday demanded up to 15 years’ imprisonment for the Yeni Asya daily editor Nur Ener over membership in a terrorist organization, the P24 news portal reported. Ener was initially arrested on March 5, 2017, over her...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 23, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Orcun Senyucel, a former public employee who was dismissed from his job at the Competition Authority in 2016 has been abducted by an unknown group of people, according to his parent. “My son Orçun SENYÜCEL who was dismissed with a post-coup government decree in 2016...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 23, 2018 | Int'l Reactions
A 25-year-old woman, identified as H.G., was granted asylum by Bosnian court which dismissed Turkey’s request for extradition, according to media. Reuters reported on Monday that H.G. an appeal court in Bosnia last month ruled against the extradition of H.G. on the...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 23, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A Bolu couple, both teachers, has been arrested after 9 months in hiding on Apr 23. H.H. and his wife Z.H. were earlier given 7.5 years of prison sentence each on accusation of membership to the Gulen movement. A Bolu prosecutor has issued arrest warrants for the...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 23, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A 54-year-old cleaning worker who was suspended over security surveillance at a government-seized municipality, has died of a heart attack. Ali Aras was suspended from his job at Mersin’s Akdeniz Municipality which was earlier seized by the mayor’s alleged ties to the...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 23, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
At least 532 people were detained as part of investigations into the Gülen movement over the past week, according to government data. In a written statement on Monday, the Interior Ministry said 532 people were rounded up in operations targeting the Gülen movement...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 21, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Sixty-six U.S. senators released a letter on April 20 calling on the Turkish government to release an American pastor on trial in Turkey over alleged links to the Gülen group, which is accused of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. Andrew Brunson, a Christian pastor...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 21, 2018 | Int'l Reactions
The Turkish government has not always observed the requirements of law that prohibit arbitrary arrest and detention and provide for the right of any person to challenge the lawfulness of arrest or detention in court, said a report released by the US State Department....
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 21, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Ümit Horzum, a Turkish citizen who was abducted from his car in Ankara on December 6, 2017 and handed over to the Ankara police on Monday, is being subject to torture, torment and excruciating pain at the Ankara Police Department Organized Crime Control Bureau,...
