by TurkeyPurge | May 11, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Kayseri-based public accountant, identified as M.Y., was given 8 years and 9 months jail sentence during his final court hearing, media said Thursday. In pre-trial detention for 22 months, M.Y. was convicted of membership to the Gulen movement, which the government...
by TurkeyPurge | May 4, 2018 | Human Tragedies
Savaş Uyar, a 41-year-old public accountant in Turkey’s Giresun province has lost 52 kilograms during months-long pre-trial detention as he is suffering from several medical problems, according to several sources. Uyar was briefly jailed due to his accounting contract...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 25, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
An Istanbul court ruled to release the leading Turkish journalist Kadri Gursel in the trial of Cumhuriyet newspaper meanwhile ordering that four others to remain in pretrial detention, on Monday. Gursel, who spent 11 months in jail over terror charges, was released on...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 22, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown
Murat Okumus, a 40-year-old accountant who was a manager at the government-closed Sifa University Hospital in Izmir, was abducted, marking second forced disappearance in a week. “MY SON WAS ABDUCTED! I have failed to get a satisfactory answer from the institutions I...
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