Tag: Turkey Purge
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 ...
Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 176 officers of the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) including six F-16 pilots and four gendarmerie district commanders over alleged links to the Gülen movement, accused by the Turkish ...
Hakan Sukur is Turkey’s greatest ever goalscorer and once one of Europe’s most prolific strikers. A legend. So, how did he end up driving taxis and selling books for a living in the US, in ...
Two employees of the re-named Sapat school network are reportedly in detention. A Bishkek court has stalled their extradition. A court in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, reportedly overturned a decision made by the Prosector General’s Office to ...
PHOTO: Amnesty (illustrative) Former public servants who were detained on Wednesday over membership in the faith-based Gülen movement were subjected to ill treatment and threatened with sexual abuse, according to an opposition deputy, the Euronews ...
Engin Erol, 41, a Turkish businessman who was jailed three years ago on allegations of membership in the faith-based Gülen movement, died on Thursday evening in a hospital from cancer, which was not treated properly ...
Ece Temelkuran, a prominent Turkish journalist and author, says that right-wing populism is not a passing by political fancy and that it is “a global phenomenon generated by the failures of social equality, also called ...