by TurkeyPurge | Mar 23, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Pop singer and columnist Atilla Tas has said the pro-government Kanal D trimmed particular scenes from the comedy movie, Karisik Kaset where he took part in. In a video recording he filmed while visiting a police station as part of his probation, Tas said Kanal D,...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 10, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish pop singer and columnist Atilla Taş was sent back to prison on Friday as a regional appeals court upheld a local court’s ruling to imprison him for three years, one month and 15 days over Gülen links. He was writing daily columns for the Meydan daily, an...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 24, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Atilla Taş, a former singer and a columnist for the now-closed Meydan daily, Murat Aksoy, former columnist of now-closed Bugün daily, and Davut Aydın, a former teacher, were released by an İstanbul court on Tuesday after 416 in pretrial detention over alleged links to...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 6, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
An indictment drafted by the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office seeks two consecutive life sentences for 13 people, including prominent Turkish journalists and pop singer Atilla Taş, on coup charges. The journalists named in the indictment are National Party...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 27, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
“Edison wouldn’t have invented the bulb if he saw these days,” Atilla Taş, a jailed pop star turned journalist wrote on Twitter two years ago, in an apparent reference to the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AK Party) corporate logo. An indictment prepared...
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