Tag: Turkey Purge
ANKARA, TURKEY — Turkey on Friday accused the United States of becoming a “safe harbour” for members of a network that it blames for a coup attempt in 2016, after Washington criticized the conviction of ...
A symbolic photo of İstanbul Bosphorus bridge on the night of the coup attempt on July 15, 2016. Selami Turabi, a judge who is also a senior official at the Justice Ministry responsible for European ...
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey on Monday ordered the detention of 149 people, mainly from the security forces, over suspected links to the network Ankara says orchestrated a failed coup in 2016, state-owned Anadolu news agency ...
Freed American pastor Andrew Brunson (L) prays for US President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, DC, October 13, 2018. – Brunson, held for two years in Turkey, returned to the US earlier ...
Despite the rapid rise in Covid-19 cases in Turkey, the government is still dealing harshly with prisoners, reports Nora Koloyan-Keuhnelian Turkish journalist Hakan Aygun was sent to prison on Friday over Twitter posts thought to ...
Turkish journalist and writer Ahmet Altan embraces his brother Mehmet (L) after being released on Nov. 4, 2019. Ahmet Altan was re-arrested a week later. Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images When Turkish writer and economist Mehmet Altan ...
Ahmet Burhan Ataç, a stage four cancer patient, was on Friday able to see his jailed father for five hours after an intense social media campaign calling on the Turkish government to release the father ...
Elif Tuğral, who was arrested in October while pregnant over alleged ties to the Gülen movement, on Friday gave birth at a Turkish hospital where gendarmes stood guard at her room, the tr724 news website ...
After the attempted coup in Turkey in 2016, 134,000 people lost their jobs. Most of them are still unemployed and have to fight for health services and pensions. Many suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. By ...
A new report from Human Rights Watch on forcible disappearances in Turkey called for an “effective investigation into credible testimony” from one of the most recent men to go missing for months. The New York-based Human ...