by TurkeyPurge | Jul 29, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Senturk Uzun, Turkey’s former ambassador to Ghana, was put in pre-trial detention, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Saturday. Detained in Istanbul’s Kadikoy as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement on July 26, Uzun was arrested on accusation of...
by TurkeyPurge | May 25, 2017 | Today in Crackdown, Turkey’s Exiled Journalists Speak Out
A Myanmar-based Turkish teacher, probably with links to the Gülen movement, was detained along with his family at Yangon International airport after Turkish government cancelled their passports, on Wednesday. Teacher M. Furkan Sökmen, his wife Ayşe and daughter Sibel...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 27, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Three ambassadors, including former Turkish President Abdullah Gül’s aide and former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu’s ex-adviser Gürcan Balık, were arrested as part of an investigation by the Ankara Public Prosecutor’s Office into people affiliated with the Gülen...
Emotional reunion of 9-year-old daughter, disabled father after 20 months in Turkish prison
Dementia-suffering Kurdish politician released from prison
The head of Turkey’s doctors’ union sent to prison on terror accusations
Turkish police detain 543 people in 59 provinces over alleged Gülen links
Son of purge-victim judge jumps to his death from İstanbul’s Galata Tower
Constitutional court rejects jailed Kurdish youngster’s appeal for release
This Kurdish youngster in 6th year in Silivri prison on coup charges
14 more military cadets set free after 6 years in prison
Turkish gov’t seeks extradition of critical journalist Cevheri Güven
Purge-victim police officer dies after accident at a mining site in Gebze