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Turkey seeks three-year jail sentence for journalist Baysal over tweets criticizing Afrin operation

Turkey seeks three-year jail sentence for journalist Baysal over tweets criticizing Afrin operation

by TurkeyPurge | Apr 18, 2018 | Today in Crackdown

A Turkish prosecutor is seeking a three-year jail sentence for journalist Nurcan Baysal due to her tweets critical of an ongoing Turkish military operation in the Kurdish-controlled Afrin region of Syria, according to the Mesopotamia news agency. Baysal was detained...
Turkish professor gets 15 months in prison for signing 2016 peace declaration

Turkish professor gets 15 months in prison for signing 2016 peace declaration

by TurkeyPurge | Apr 5, 2018 | Today in Crackdown

Professor Füsun Üstel, one of the academics who signed a peace declaration in early 2016 criticizing the Turkish government for its violation of human rights and civilian casualties among the predominantly Kurdish population of eastern Turkey, has been handed down a...
Detention warrant issued for pollster due to social media postings

Detention warrant issued for pollster due to social media postings

by TurkeyPurge | Apr 4, 2018 | Today in Crackdown

Detention warrant was issued for Kemal Özkiraz, the coordinatior of the Eurasia Public Opinion Research Centre (AKAM), media reported on Tuesday. Police raided Özkiraz’s home and workplace, to no avail. A lawyer representing him said Özkiraz would stop by the...
9 Bogaziçi students sent to prison for participating in protest against Turkey’s Afrin operation

9 Bogaziçi students sent to prison for participating in protest against Turkey’s Afrin operation

by TurkeyPurge | Apr 3, 2018 | Today in Crackdown

9 Boğaziçi student have been arrested by an İstanbul court while 6 others released pending trial after participating in protests against Turkey’s Afrin operation, the T24 news portal reported. On March 19, a group of students protested other students who had set up a...
1,250 academics in 37 countries campaign for Bogazici students’ release

1,250 academics in 37 countries campaign for Bogazici students’ release

by TurkeyPurge | Apr 2, 2018 | Int'l Reactions

A total of 1,250 academics from more than 100 organizations across 37 countries of the world have signed a petition asking for the release of 15 Boğaziçi University students in Turkey who were detained in March for holding a protest against an ongoing Turkish military...
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