Diyanet imams spied on Gülen sympathizers in Romania

A report published by The Black Sea news website on Saturday revealed that imams from Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) spied on people sympathetic...

EP president criticizes removal of HDP deputy Zana’s parliamentary status

Antonio Tajani, president of the European Parliament, has released a statement on Twitter criticizing the Friday removal of the parliamentary status of pro-Kurdish Peoples’...

COMMENTARY — Turkey’s Maarif exports Erdoğan’s ideology to Balkans

By Abdullah Bozkurt The Maarif Foundation, the long arm of the autocratic regime of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has positioned itself to raise a new...

Pro-Erdoğan group hacks Twitter accounts of EU Commissioner Hahn, former NATO head

The Twitter accounts of European Commissioner for Enlargement Johannes Hahn and NATO's former Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen were taken over by Turkish hacker group Ayyıldız over...

Turkish police detains survivor of Suruç Massacre, places him in a cell next to...

Volkan Uyar, a survivor of the Suruç Massacre in Turkey, was detained on the second anniversary of the Islamic State in Iraq and the...

German theater group cancels İstanbul performance fearing arrest of staff by Turkish gov’t

The Berliner Schaubühne theater has scrapped an upcoming production of Shakespeare’s Richard III in Istanbul, fearing arrest of its staff, on Tuesday. “The arrests of...

Human Rights Watch: Torture in custody, abductions continue in Turkey

People in Turkey accused of links to terrorism or with the 2016 military coup attempt have been tortured in police custody while others have...

Sgt. Daş, who Turkish gov’t labeled as a traitor for 2 years after his...

The name of Sgt. Ferhat Daş, a Turkish tank commander who chose to die by suicide rather than open fire on civilians during a...

Turkish police officers guarding Erdoğan on night of coup attempt arrested, judge says

Emirşah Baştoğ, presiding judge of the Muğla 2nd High Criminal Court, where a trial of suspected putschist soldiers is being heard, said on Saturday...

Turkey’s ruling AKP member threatens main opposition CHP leader with death

https://turkeypurge.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/HPRO0OVz74Bxd_AK.mp4 Emrullah Kavuz, a local member of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has threatened the main opposition Republican Peoples’ Party (CHP) leader Kemal...

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New report exposes widespread, systematic rights violations in Turkey’s crackdown on the Gülen movement

STOCKHOLM— The Stockholm Center for Freedom today released a new report, “UN Findings on Turkey’s Crackdown on the Gülen Movement: Widespread and Systematic Rights...

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