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...
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