The Gülen movement or Hizmet movement is an international social, educational and Islamic fraternal movement founded by Fethullah Gülen in Turkey in the late 1970s and based in the U.S. since 1999. It
Enes Kanter Freedom openly expressed his support for the Gülen movement
Gökhan Açıkkollu, a teacher from a Gülen-affiliated school died in police custody after being imprisoned and tortured for 13 days post 2016 coup attempt.
Ahmet Yassawi University, a private university affiliated with the Gülen movement located in Turkistan, Kazakhstan
Zaman newspaper headquarters, one of the most widely circulated newspapers in Turkey before it was seized by the Turkish government.
Since 2016, the government of Turkey has conducted a series of purges, enabled by a state of emergency in reaction to the failed coup attempt on 15 July that year. The purges began with the arrest of
General Bekir Ercan Van (far left), the commander of Incirlik Air Base, was accused of complicity in the attempted coup.
The building of the Turkish Court of Cassation in Ankara.
Opposition politicians Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yüksekdağ had been arrested on terrorism charges