by TurkeyPurge | Aug 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
One man was detained in Adana province on Monday as part of a witch-hunt targeting people wearing T-shirts bearing the word “hero,” Cumhuriyet daily reported. The man, who was drinking fruit juice with his friends at a buffet when he was detained, said he did not know...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 27, 2017 | Today in Crackdown, Uncategorized
Detained hours after giving birth at a private hospital in İstanbul early on Tuesday, Ayşe Kaya has been transferred to a police station in Edirne, a northwestern province some 240 kilometers away from home. According to tweets posted by main opposition Republican...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
Mehmet Aybek, a member of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) youth wing who shared a photo of an MP5 machine gun on Facebook, was briefly detained and then released on Thursday, the Cumhuriyet daily reported. According to the report, Aybek had posted a photo of...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
A Kastamonu-based university student, identified as M.A., received a 6-years-and-3-months prison term over terror charges, on Tuesday. Under arrest for some time over his/her use of ByLock mobile application, M.A. was sentenced for alleged membership to the Gulen...
by TurkeyPurge | May 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
At least 20 former personnel of the government-closed Mevlana University were taken under custody over coup charges on Thursday. The detainees are accused of membership to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15, 2016 coup...
by TurkeyPurge | May 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
At least 12 people including housewives, teachers, university personnel and some police officers were taken into custody for interrogation as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement, on May 18. Igdir based operation accuses the suspects of membership the...
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