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 18.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 3 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.99 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “2016 Turkish purges” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (8615^th place) and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “2016 Turkish purges”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 492 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 649 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1406 in August 2016
• Global: #517 in July 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #12929 in August 2016
• Global: #7733 in July 2016

There are 17 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, 2025 (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		95
2	French (fr) Purges suivant la tentative de coup d'État de 2016 en Turquie		83.1579
3	German (de) Maßnahmen nach dem Putschversuch in der Türkei 2016		78.5714
4	Indonesian (id) Pembersihan Turki 2016–2017		57.9307
5	Turkish (tr) 2016-18 Türkiye tasfiyeleri		54.3523
6	Chinese (zh) 2016年土耳其整肃		52.0373
7	Vietnamese (vi) Các cuộc thanh trừng ở Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ 2016		49.9076
8	Spanish (es) Purgas en Turquía de 2016		48.9963
9	Czech (cs) Čistky v Turecku (2016)		41.508
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Čistke u Turskoj 2016.		33.0839

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		827 840
2	French (fr) Purges suivant la tentative de coup d'État de 2016 en Turquie		107 841
3	Turkish (tr) 2016-18 Türkiye tasfiyeleri		81 333
4	German (de) Maßnahmen nach dem Putschversuch in der Türkei 2016		55 383
5	Chinese (zh) 2016年土耳其整肃		34 823
6	Arabic (ar) عمليات التطهير التركية (2016–الآن)		30 991
7	Spanish (es) Purgas en Turquía de 2016		29 570
8	Indonesian (id) Pembersihan Turki 2016–2017		12 084
9	Persian (fa) پاکسازی در ترکیه پس از کودتای ۲۰۱۶		8 763
10	Czech (cs) Čistky v Turecku (2016)		7 994

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		2 047
2	Turkish (tr) 2016-18 Türkiye tasfiyeleri		665
3	Chinese (zh) 2016年土耳其整肃		310
4	French (fr) Purges suivant la tentative de coup d'État de 2016 en Turquie		245
5	Arabic (ar) عمليات التطهير التركية (2016–الآن)		168
6	Spanish (es) Purgas en Turquía de 2016		100
7	German (de) Maßnahmen nach dem Putschversuch in der Türkei 2016		87
8	Russian (ru) Политические чистки в Турции после военного путча 2016 года		56
9	Simple English (simple) 2016 Turkish purges		50
10	Persian (fa) پاکسازی در ترکیه پس از کودتای ۲۰۱۶		31

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		221
2	German (de) Maßnahmen nach dem Putschversuch in der Türkei 2016		73
3	French (fr) Purges suivant la tentative de coup d'État de 2016 en Turquie		54
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		13
7	Persian (fa) پاکسازی در ترکیه پس از کودتای ۲۰۱۶		12
8	Czech (cs) Čistky v Turecku (2016)		11
9	Arabic (ar) عمليات التطهير التركية (2016–الآن)		9
10	Vietnamese (vi) Các cuộc thanh trừng ở Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ 2016		7

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		3
2	Spanish (es) Purgas en Turquía de 2016		1
3	Simple English (simple) 2016 Turkish purges		1
4	Arabic (ar) عمليات التطهير التركية (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	Indonesian (id) Pembersihan Turki 2016–2017		0

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

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