by TurkeyPurge | Jun 21, 2017 | Human Tragedies
Once an inspiring educator to his pupils, a Batman teacher was detained with her hands cuffed behind back as a perceived enemy of the state, his wife said in a letter to Turkish media on With the names of both the teacher and his wife remaining anonymous, the details...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 21, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Murat Taşhan, a Corum judge who sent 517 people from 21 different occupations to prison over their alleged links to the Gülen movement, was detained as part of a separate investigation into the group last week. Tashan was taken into custody along with his 5 colleagues...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 21, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Şeyma Ölmez, the daughter of Turkish writer Mustafa Hikmet Kayapalı who passed away after falling from a three-storey-building in the Balikesir in May, said police officers may have had a role in her father’s death. Kayapalı fell to his death, state-run Anadolu agency...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 20, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that at least 49 people were detained over the past week on charges of making propaganda on social media on behalf of the Gulen movement and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Islamic State of Iraq and...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 20, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
At least 13 people were detained as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement followers in Kahramanmaras, on Tuesday. Detention warrants were earlier issued for 13 teachers who were earlier dismissed from their jobs over alleged links to the movement....
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 20, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A total of 930 people were detained across Turkey as part of investigations into the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt, over the past week. In a written statement on Monday, Interior Ministry said 930 were detained...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 20, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The Senate of Turkey’s Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University has unanimously decided to revoke an honorary doctorate granted to renowned Turkish international soccer player Hakan Şükür over alleged ties to Turkey’s Gülen group, which is accused by Turkish...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 20, 2017 | Hate Speech
Newly emerged video shows the moment Metin Balkanlıoğlu, an important figure within İsmailaga community, one of Turkey’s most prominent religious communities, called on Turkish security forces to carry out mass execution against those engaging in “terrorist...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 20, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
An indictment drafted by an İstanbul prosecutor seeks a jail sentence of four years, eight months for journalist Levent Gültekin, an outspoken government critic and a columnist for the diken news website, on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan....
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 20, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Ahmet Odabaş, former district governor who was appointed as a trustee to administer Mardin’s Kızıltepe Municipality, has removed the statue of Uğur Kaymaz, 12-year-old Kurdish child who was killed in a police crossfire along with his father in 2004. A clock tower was...
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