by TurkeyPurge | May 20, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Twenty-one people in Turkey’s Afyon province were jailed pending trial over their alleged ties to the Gulen movement, media reported on Friday. On May 9, police carried out operations at 28 locations in Afyon in order to detain 36 people suspected of Gulen ties. At...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 27, 2017 | Human Tragedies, Today in Crackdown
Ali Osman Karahan, an 87-year-old Turkish man who has been kept in an Isparta prison for almost 15 months over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, was given 11-day solitary confinement for relieving other inmates by saying: “if you are not guilty, you will be...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 19, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Mehmet Ünlü, a medical professor and the chief physician at the Kocatepe University hospital in Afyonkarahisar until he was dismissed over his alleged links to the Gulen movement, was sentenced to 12 years in prison. According to Kronos online news portal on Thursday,...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 18, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Emrah Özge Yelken, the public prosecutor in Afyon’s Dinar district issued detention warrants for 21 women including mothers of newborn babies as well as elderly citizens, as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement on Friday. Turkish media reported that police...
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