by TurkeyPurge | Apr 26, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Mustafa Ceyhan, a Turkish businessman allegedly affiliated with Turkey’s Gülen group, was reportedly kidnapped by a group of eight people in front of a courthouse in Baku, Azerbaijan, according a Twitter account believed to be controlled by Mr. Ceyhan’s...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 26, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The Cumhuriyet daily’s chief executive officer, Akın Atalay, who was released from pretrial detention last night, said he would be ashamed to be happy while many people are still in jail, Cumhuriyet reported. “I’ll go about my business within the boundaries of the...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 26, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A video shared by the Yarın news portal shows the moment a group of university students being beaten by security staff at Ankara’s Gazi University campus. Students were reportedly attacked while they were protesting a recent government proposal to establish 20...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 25, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish court has sentenced a group of Cumhuriyet journalists and employees to jail for alleged links to a group the Turkish government blames for a failed coup attempt in July 2016. According to the Birgün daily, 6 of them were convicted of aiding and abetting an...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 25, 2018 | Human Tragedies, Today in Crackdown
An Elazig teacher identified as Cemal Gürer has died of cancer, according to online news portal Akfifhaber. Jailed over his links to the Gulen movement, Gürer was in pre-trial detention for some time, Aktifhaber said Wednesday. “His cancer problem relapsed while in...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 25, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Journalist Ismail Küçükkaya and lawyer Fidel Okan were sentenced to 1 year 4 months and 20 days in jail each for implying that the family issues minister Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya’s husband had used the controversial mobile app, ByLock. An Istanbul prosecutor earlier...
