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Exiled journalist warns of a genocide in the making in newly released book

Bünyamin Tekin "The increasingly widespread witch-hunt, systematic and widespread hate speech, ongoing persecution and massacre of Gulen movement members have made conditions in Turkey ripe...

German gov’t: Human rights violations continue despite Turkey’s lifting of state of emergency

Human rights violations are continuing in Turkey despite the lifting of a state of emergency in July 2018, the German government has said, underlining...

Turkey expels 13 judges, prosecutors from profession over Gülen links

Turkey’s Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) has expelled 13 judges and prosecutors from the legal profession due to their alleged links to the...

Belgium’s highest criminal court will convene over Facebook posts insulting Gülen-linked residents

A court in Belgium on November 16 referred 14 Belgians of Turkish descent to the country's highest criminal court over Facebook comments targeting residents...

Former cadets, officers among 54 detained over alleged Gülen links

Turkish police on Friday detained 54 people as part of an İstanbul-based operation targeting alleged members of the Gülen movement. The Turkish government accuses the...

Six years on, gov’t crackdown on Gülen movement continues at dramatic pace

by Cevheri Güven A government crackdown on the faith-based Gülen movement launched following a corruption scandal in Turkey in late 2013 and culminating in...

Purged police chief released from prison 7 months after cancer diagnosis dies

Former police chief Ümit Gökhasan, one of more than 130,000 civil servants dismissed from their jobs as part of a massive purge carried out...

19 lawyers detained in dawn raids in SE Turkey, warrants outstanding for scores of others

Turkish police in the early hours of Friday detained 19 lawyers in southeastern Turkey as part of an investigation into the Democratic Society Congress...

3 Kurdish asylum seekers in Romania facing deportation to Turkey

Romanian authorities are trying to deport to Turkey three Kurds including a journalist who are seeking political asylum in the country, the Yeni Yaşam...

Disabled woman convicted on terrorism charges due to alleged Gülen links

A young woman with physical disabilities has been handed down a jail sentence of six years, three months on terrorism charges due to alleged...

26 teachers detained in southeast Turkey as part of operation targeting Kurdish group

Turkish police officers on Friday detained 26 teachers, all members of the Education and Science Workers Union (Eğitim-Sen), as part of an investigation into...

Turkey denies alleged enforced disappearance of Yusuf Tunç when questioned by ECtHR

Cevheri Güven The Turkish government, answering questions posed by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), has denied claims that Yusuf Bilge Tunç was abducted...

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