by TurkeyPurge | Jul 21, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish court ruled to put Isa Ozdemir, a suspected follower of the Gulen movement who was abducted in Azerbaijan by Turkish intelligence agency, has been put in pre-trial detention in Ankara. Ozdemir, wanted on accusation of membership to the Gulen movement in...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 8, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Mehmet Anıl, a reporter for the ETHA news agency, has been arrested along with three others on accusations of membership in an illegal organization. Police earlier detained seven Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) members, among them Anıl, in Adana. While the...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 8, 2016 | Int'l Reactions
Fears that the Turkish government would capitalize on a state of emergency to silence critics who have nothing to do with a July 15 coup attempt have come true, Emma Sinclair-Webb, Turkey director of the US-based non-profit Human Rights Watch (HRW), has said. In a...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 23, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
In the latest phase of an ever-growing demonization of Fethullah Gülen by the Turkish government, police are set to deliberately plant his books in Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) cells in order to expose an alleged connection between the cleric and the...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 22, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency on Thursday had to suddenly reverse course on a report it had previously posted alleging that books connected to the faith-based Gülen movement were discovered during police searches at locations of Islamic State in Iraq and the...
72-year-old businessman in solitary confinement for months in Ankara Sincan prison
Turkish authorities issue detention warrants for 53 public officials on terror, coup accusations
Imprisoned cancer patient denied release from prison once again
Turkish court jails 15 former public officials for “providing financial support” to families of imprisoned “Gulenists”
Turkish intelligence abducts Gülenists from Africa, Central Asia by paying bribes, says former intel official
17-week pregnant woman sent to Şanlıurfa prison over alleged Gulen links: report
Purge-victim Turkish businessman shares first picture from prison in 6 years
Karabuk court jails 5 female university students on terror charges
Turkish reporter Ayşenur Parıldak set free after spending some 6 years in prison
73-year-old Kurdish man dies of Covid-19 in prison: report