by TurkeyPurge | Mar 23, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A local court in Belgium’s Limburg province has given 6-month jail time plus 600 euros fine to a 37-year-old man who threatened Gulen supporters online. “Come on, traitors, I’m waiting for you,” the man sent threats, via Facebook messages, to members...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 28, 2018 | Int'l Reactions
The Belgian police have found out that part of the threats targeting Turkish journalists in 2016 were made on computers at the Turkish embassy in Brussels. A recent police investigation has shown that at least one of the threatening social media messages received by...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 6, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Ibrahim Anaz, one of the executives at a Brussels-based association sympathetic to the Gulen movement, was stabbed by a family member who is a supporter of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to local media. Anaz was stabbed and seriously wounded by one of his...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 4, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
Home Affairs Minister Liesbeth Homans said the Flemist government has lifted the recognition of the Turkish government-sponsored Fatih mosque in the northern city of Beringen. “I can’t tolerate groups are pitted against each other or excluded,” Homans said over the...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 23, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Fırat News Agency (ANF) director Maxime Demiralp, who was taken into custody in Brussels on Dec. 16, was arrested by a Belgian court the next day at Turkey’s request, ANF said on Wednesday. In a statement on Wednesday, ANF said Demiralp was taken into custody on Dec....
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