Newly-elected purge-victim mayors will not be given mandates: Turkey’s election body

by TurkeyPurge | Apr 18, 2019 | Today in Crackdown

Turkey’s Supreme Election Board (YSK) on Thursday confirmed its decision to annul the election of mayors who were purged from public service by government decrees after objections from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), the Artı Gerçek news website reported. In the...

Former ÖSYM head put under house arrest in İstanbul

by TurkeyPurge | Apr 18, 2019 | Today in Crackdown

Ali Demir, the former head of Turkey’s Student Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM), has been moved from pre-trial detention to house arrest on Wednesday. Demir was detained last Monday over his alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen movement as part of an investigation...

[VIDEO] 8 women detained over Gulen links in Turkey’s Sakarya

by TurkeyPurge | Apr 18, 2019 | Today in Crackdown

8 women were detained over their alleged ties to the Gulen movement in Turkey’s Aksaray, media reported Thursday. Detention warrants were issued for 15 women on accusation of being secretive leaders of the followers of the Gulen movement within police academy. 8...

Academic, former police officer detained while on way to escape to Greece as asylum seekers

by TurkeyPurge | Apr 18, 2019 | Today in Crackdown

An academic was tur along with a former police officer near Turkey-Greece border where they were reportedly on their way to escape the country as asylum seekers. State-run Anadolu news agency reported Apr 16 that the pair was stopped in a restricted military zone near...

Former Supreme Court judge sentenced to 11 years in jail in post-coup trial

by TurkeyPurge | Apr 18, 2019 | Today in Crackdown

A former top judge who was jailed as part of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s post-coup crackdown has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. Former Supreme Court of Appeals member Ali Kaya was convicted of membership to the Gulen movement, a broadened terror charge the...