by TurkeyPurge | Dec 23, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish court ruled to keep renowned Turkish philanthropist and rights advocate Osman Kavala in prison at his latest court hearing, state-run Anadolu news agency reported. Kavala is accused of orchestrating the Gezi Park mass protests in the summer of 2013 in a...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 22, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Two Kurdish brothers, named Seyfettin Yaşa and Metin Yaşa, were released by a Turkish court on December 18 after 30 years of imprisonment over terror charges, the Mezopotamya news portal reported. According to the report, Yaşa brothers were sentenced to life in prison...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 22, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Esra Çiçeklidağ, a former judge dismissed from her job by a government decree, entered 44th day of her arrest at a prison in Gebze, a district in Kocaeli Province. The purge victim judge is accused of alleged links to the Gulen group, which the government accuses of...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 22, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
A mother took her 4-year-old child to prison with her after being jailed over alleged links to the Gulen group, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. The group denies any involvement. According to Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 20, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
A Kurdish prisoner named Vedat Çem Erkmen took his own life on Sunday at an F Type prison in Tekirdağ province, according to Turkish authorities. Erkmen was serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole over alleged links to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party...