The purge of suspected supporters of the July 15 failed coup against Recep Tayyip Erdogan has left Turkey’s military down hundreds of thousands of men, including nearly 200 generals, just as Erdogan seeks an expanded role in the fight against the Islamic State in Syria.
Turkish police on Sunday detained a brother of the US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen who is accused of masterminding the failed July coup aimed at ousting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, state media said.
Farewell Tweets were posted Monday morning by journalist Mahir Zeynalov, who said Twitter was blocking his account at the request of the Turkish government.
Turkey has asked Washington to arrest US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen for “ordering” the July 15 coup bid which was aimed at ousting the government, state media reported on Tuesday.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday said Turkey had a duty to defeat the Islamic State extremist group, adding its operation inside Syria was a first step towards this goal.
The Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has decided to assume control over all the schools in its jurisdiction linked to the religious movement led by imam Fethullah Gulen, whom Turkish President Recep Erdogan blames for the failed coup attempt against him.
In an official indictment against individuals allegedly tied to Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish prosecutor has argued that Gulen’s Hismet organization is a CIA project and compared it to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) and the Church of Scientology.
The Turkish government has confirmed to Foreign Policy that its extradition request for Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen to the United States did not contain any evidence linking Gulen to the failed coup attempt on July 15.
A new report has leaked information that the Turkish spy agency has over 6,000 operatives in Germany and may reach into neighbouring Austria as well. According to a new report from German media, the Turkish intelligence service, known at MIT,
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US Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Turkey on Wednesday for critical talks with its leadership as Ankara launched a military operation to drive Islamic State jihadists out of a key Syrian border town.
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The death toll from a suspected suicide bomb attack in the southeastern Turkish city of Gaziantep has risen to 50, the local governor’s office says.
A string of bombings, blamed on Kurdish rebels and targeting Turkey’s security forces, killed at least 11 people and wounded 226 others, officials said Thursday.
The crackdown on journalists and media outlets with unfavorable outlooks towards the Islamist government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan continues in Turkey, where a Hurriyet reporter has been arrested for tweeting a rumor that the head of Turkey’s intelligence agency had been a suspect in last month’s failed coup.
The government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has issued a decree to initially release an estimated 38,000 in an apparent effort to make space for thousands of accused plotters detained in connection with last month’s failed military coup attempt.
Controversial Muslim cleric and Texas charter school bigwig Fethullah Gülen is a wanted man. The Republic of Turkey demanded two life sentences plus another 1,900 years in prison for the reclusive Pennsylvania-based imam Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accused of masterminding July’s failed coup.
Turkey on Wednesday submitted to parliament a deal to normalise ties with Israel delayed by the July 15 military coup attempt, the state-run Anadolu news agency said.
The crackdown on alleged supporters of Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen continues in Turkey, where police have arrested 136 out of a total of 173 court staff at the Palace of Justice, the nation’s biggest courthouse.
Turkey’s National Intelligence Agency (MIT) reports that it has deciphered an encrypted message U.S.-based imam Fethullah Gulen sent his followers who have fled Turkey, urging them to unite in the countries where they are now residing and “perform activities against Turkey,” according to Hurriyet Daily News.
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TEL AVIV – Intelligence agencies in several Arab states suspect the Turkish regime may attempt an assassination campaign against people affiliated with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s arch enemy Fethullah Gulen as well as other opposition figures that Erdogan believes may have been involved in last month’s failed coup attempt, an Arab intelligence source told Breitbart Jerusalem.
Reuters reports that Vice President Joe Biden will visit Turkey on August 24, meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, in the first visit by a high-ranking U.S. official since the failed coup attempt in July.
ISTANBUL – Turkey’s prime minister said on Saturday that Ankara could not compromise with the United States over its request for the extradition of Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen which it blames for orchestrating last month’s attempted coup.
Robert Amsterdam, a lawyer representing the Turkish government, appeared on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss his exclusive article at Breitbart News, “Turkey: Is the Gülen Organization a Cult?”
The Turkish government has canceled four concerts by singer Sıla Gençoğlu after she publicly condemned political rallies in favor of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan following a July 15 coup attempt as “shows” in which she felt uncomfortable participating.
Turkey has issued an arrest warrant for its former international football star striker Hakan Sukur in the probe over the failed July 15 coup aimed at unseating President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a report said Friday.
The Turkish government has released new numbers on those it has dismissed from government jobs in the past month following a failed coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan: 76,000 detained and more than 16,000 arrested for suspected ties to Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen.
The Turkish center for the Oklahoma City Thunder, Enes Kanter, changed his last name to Gülen after his parents disowned him for pledging allegiance to Pennsylvania-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen.
At a rally of a reported one million people in Istanbul, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has vowed to reintroduce the death penalty if the people want it.
Turkish media have been promoting a conspiracy theory that Fethullah Gulen — the Turkish imam living in the U.S. who has been accused of masterminding the coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — is a member of a “secret NATO army” that has been lurking in Turkey since the Cold War era.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has given multiple speeches in the past week admitting to having been an ally of Fethullah Gulen, and Islamic cleric Erdogan claims staged the failed coup attempt against him last month, because of Islam.
A Turkish newspaper employee was tackled to the floor during an attack by burqa-clad women accusing the six-months pregnant victim of being a “Gulenist” and wearing “revealing” clothes that violate sharia law.
In a speech Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned the EU and United States for being “on the side of coups and terror,” echoing criticism of the West by longtime rival, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.
The Justice Minister of Turkey announced Tuesday that he has sent a second extradition request to the United States for Fethullah Gulen, an Islamic cleric living in the Pocono mountains whom President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused of orchestrating the
TEL AVIV – Turkish officials suspect that Mohammed Dahlan, the one-time Palestinian security boss and today’s President Mahmoud Abbas’ arch-rival, was involved in the failed attempt to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan earlier this month, Arab and international reports now claim.
A Turkish prosecutor has filed an indictment against the CIA and FBI for allegedly having active involvement in last month’s failed coup attempt against Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and using Pennsylvania-based cleric Fethullah Gulen to ramp up opposition to Erdogan in the Turkish military.
Note: Robert Amsterdam is a Canadian attorney based in London who has represented government officials, corporations and human rights activists around the world. He is working with the Turkish government on litigation involving Gulen. In the aftermath of the violent attempted military
Despite claims by mainstream media outlets, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) did not launch an official investigation into the Houston-based Harmony Public Schools. The TEA confirmed to Breitbart Texas on Friday they did not open a formal probe and reports indicating they did are incorrect.
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