2016 Turkish purges

Quality:

Purges in Turkey 2016/17 - series of purges by the Government of Turkey in reaction to the July 15th, 2016 failed coup d'état. Article “2016 Turkish purges” in Simple English Wikipedia has 17.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 3 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.93 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “2016 Turkish purges”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 522 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 586 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1403 in August 2016
• Global: #522 in July 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #12969 in August 2016
• Global: #7762 in July 2016

There are 18 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Purges in Turkey following the 2016 Turkish coup attempt		94.7721
2	Hebrew (he) טיהורים פוליטיים בטורקיה לאחר ניסיון ההפיכה בשנת 2016		90.6154
3	French (fr) Purges suivant la tentative de coup d'État de 2016 en Turquie		83.1579
4	German (de) Maßnahmen nach dem Putschversuch in der Türkei 2016		78.4762
5	Indonesian (id) Pembersihan Turki 2016–2017		57.4981
6	Chinese (zh) 2016年土耳其整肃		55.1868
7	Turkish (tr) 2016-18 Türkiye tasfiyeleri		54.5208
8	Vietnamese (vi) Các cuộc thanh trừng ở Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ 2016		49.653
9	Spanish (es) Purgas en Turquía de 2016		48.0644
10	Czech (cs) Čistky v Turecku (2016)		41.09

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Purges in Turkey following the 2016 Turkish coup attempt		855 424
2	French (fr) Purges suivant la tentative de coup d'État de 2016 en Turquie		111 088
3	Turkish (tr) 2016-18 Türkiye tasfiyeleri		90 190
4	German (de) Maßnahmen nach dem Putschversuch in der Türkei 2016		56 938
5	Chinese (zh) 2016年土耳其整肃		40 587
6	Arabic (ar) التطهير في تركيا (2016-الآن)		32 366
7	Spanish (es) Purgas en Turquía de 2016		31 054
8	Indonesian (id) Pembersihan Turki 2016–2017		12 305
9	Persian (fa) پاکسازی در ترکیه پس از کودتای ۲۰۱۶		9 248
10	Czech (cs) Čistky v Turecku (2016)		8 492

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Purges in Turkey following the 2016 Turkish coup attempt		3 472
2	Turkish (tr) 2016-18 Türkiye tasfiyeleri		666
3	Chinese (zh) 2016年土耳其整肃		327
4	French (fr) Purges suivant la tentative de coup d'État de 2016 en Turquie		204
5	German (de) Maßnahmen nach dem Putschversuch in der Türkei 2016		124
6	Spanish (es) Purgas en Turquía de 2016		120
7	Russian (ru) Политические чистки в Турции после военного путча 2016 года		42
8	Persian (fa) پاکسازی در ترکیه پس از کودتای ۲۰۱۶		33
9	Vietnamese (vi) Các cuộc thanh trừng ở Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ 2016		31
10	Czech (cs) Čistky v Turecku (2016)		29

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Purges in Turkey following the 2016 Turkish coup attempt		227
2	German (de) Maßnahmen nach dem Putschversuch in der Türkei 2016		75
3	French (fr) Purges suivant la tentative de coup d'État de 2016 en Turquie		62
4	Turkish (tr) 2016-18 Türkiye tasfiyeleri		39
5	Spanish (es) Purgas en Turquía de 2016		27
6	Chinese (zh) 2016年土耳其整肃		14
7	Czech (cs) Čistky v Turecku (2016)		12
8	Persian (fa) پاکسازی در ترکیه پس از کودتای ۲۰۱۶		12
9	Arabic (ar) التطهير في تركيا (2016-الآن)		11
10	Vietnamese (vi) Các cuộc thanh trừng ở Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ 2016		8

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Purges in Turkey following the 2016 Turkish coup attempt		5
2	Spanish (es) Purgas en Turquía de 2016		1
3	Indonesian (id) Pembersihan Turki 2016–2017		1
4	Arabic (ar) التطهير في تركيا (2016-الآن)		0
5	Czech (cs) Čistky v Turecku (2016)		0
6	German (de) Maßnahmen nach dem Putschversuch in der Türkei 2016		0
7	Greek (el) Εκκαθαρίσεις έπειτα από την απόπειρα πραξικοπήματος του 2016 στην Τουρκία		0
8	Persian (fa) پاکسازی در ترکیه پس از کودتای ۲۰۱۶		0
9	French (fr) Purges suivant la tentative de coup d'État de 2016 en Turquie		0
10	Hebrew (he) טיהורים פוליטיים בטורקיה לאחר ניסיון ההפיכה בשנת 2016		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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