Turkish courts order continuation of all jailed journalists’ imprisonments

İstanbul 13th High Criminal Court in the notorious Silivri Prison compound and the 26th Heavy Penal Court at İstanbul’s Çağlayan courthouse have ordered the...

US working to improve ties with Turkey to secure Pastor Brunson’s release

The Trump administration is intensifying its efforts to improve relations between Turkey and the US to ensure the release of Pastor Andrew Brunson ahead of...

Turkey remands Turkish-German journalist Tolu in prison over terrorism charges

Meşale Tolu, a Turkish-German journalist, went on trial for terrorism charges in Turkey on Wednesday, saying she was innocent and demanding her immediate release,...

Georgia detains a Turkish educator at request of Turkish PM Yıldırım during his visit

https://youtu.be/nHZ6cCD4Fis Georgia has detained Mustafa Emre Çabuk, a Turkish educator who has lived in Georgia and has served for Georgian people for last 15 years on Wednesday...

AKP deputy calls on Turkey’s religious officials to declare Gülen followers apostates

Ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) İstanbul deputy Metin Külünk has said Turkey’s top religious officials should declare supporters of the Gülen movement apostates,...

Turkish police detain student over fingerprints on Gülen books

Turkish police detained a university student after finding her fingerprints on books written by Fethullah Gülen that were thrown in the garbage to avoid...

Thousands of CHP supporters hold sit-in protest in Taksim against OHAL

Thousands of supporters of the Turkey main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) held a sit-in in İstanbul’s Taksim area on Monday protesting government plans...

Video shows Malaysian police detained Turkish expats at Turkey’s request

https://turkeypurge.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Untitled-1.mp4 A recent video recording submitted to Turkey Purge shows that Malaysia was detaining three Turks in the country at the request of Turkish government. Malay police...

Turkish gov’t detained 493 people last week, 62,895 in 2017 over alleged links to...

The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that 493 people were detained last week due to alleged links to the Gülen movement bringing the...

Turkish police admit nonexistence of ‘secret witness’ whose statements led to many imprisonments

The Diyarbakır Police Department has revealed that an anonymous witness codenamed “Venüs” whose testimony led to the detention and imprisonment of scores of people...

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