Turkish businessman abducted in Baku on Thursday put in prison in İstanbul on Friday
Turkish businessman Mustafa Ceyhan, who was abducted by unknown people in Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan, on Thursday over his alleged affiliation with...
Turkish businessman affiliated with Gülen movement abducted in Baku
Mustafa Ceyhan, a Turkish businessman allegedly affiliated with the Gülen mowement, was reportedly abducted in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku on Thursday as part...
Turks in South Africa fear abduction by Erdoğan gov’t over alleged Gülen links
“Yesterday we were sitting together, today they call us terrorists. Immediately overnight they changed,” said an obviously distressed Turkish national during an interview with...
Abducted Turkish citizen subjected to heavy torture at Ankara Organized Crime Bureau
Ümit Horzum, a Turkish citizen who was abducted from his car in Ankara on December 6, 2017 and handed over to the Ankara police last...
Kosovo President Thaci: Arrest of Gülen movement members was wrong
Kosovar President Hashim Thaci in a televised interview with T7 admitted for the first time that the arrest and deportation of six Turkish men...
Turkish gov’t targets 4,167 Turkish teachers in 160 countries over Gülen links
The Turkish government has targeted 4,167 teachers who work at 400 schools in 160 countries around the world as part of its post-coup global...
Kosovo bank reportedly freezes accounts of alleged followers of Gülen movement
As a new stage of persecution of Turkish nationals affiliated with the Gülen movement in line with the oppression of Turkish government led by...
Turkish court sentences teacher Duman, abducted by MİT from Malaysia, to 18 years in...
Alaettin Duman, a Turkish teacher in Malaysia who was abducted by agents of Turkey's notorious National Intelligence Organisation (MİT) from Kuala Lumpur in 2016...
28 EP members send letter to Kosovo’s Thaçi and Haradinaj over 6 abducted Turkish...
Twenty-eight members of the European Parliament sent a letter on Monday to Kosovo President Hashim Thaçi and Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj on the...
Praising abductions, Erdoğan says Gülen will be brought to Turkey, too
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday praised the abduction of people allegedly linked to the faith-based Gülen movement by Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization...
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