by TurkeyPurge | Mar 19, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish Finance and Treasury Minister Berat Albayrak, who is also the son-in-law of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said on Tuesday that a man who claimed on social media that Turkish Airlines (THY) was going bankrupt has been detained, the Gazete Duvar news website...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 30, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Access to Wikipedia has been banned in Turkey since the Turkish government imposed a blockage over “national security and public order” on Apr 29, 2017. The online encyclopedia was first blocked as a result of “a provisional administrative order” imposed by the...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 10, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
Former White House National Security Adviser Mike Flynn and his son were proposed $15 million to abduct Fethullah Gulen in Pennsylvania to illegally return him back to Turkey, according to Wall Street Journal’s (WSJ) sources on Friday. Under the alleged proposal,...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 24, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish court, on Tuesday, released Ömer Çelik , from the pro-Kurdish news agency DIHA, pending trial while ruling to keep the other two journalists in the same trial, Tunca Öğreten and Mahir Kanaat in detention on remand. The three are among six journalists who...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 4, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Minister of Energy Berat Albayrak, who is also President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s son-in-law, on Sunday shared a photo on his Twitter account saying that he had given the necessary warnings to bureaucrats about continuing power cuts across the country. In the tweet...