by TurkeyPurge | Aug 10, 2019 | Human Tragedies
Yusuf Bilge Tunç, a former civil servant who was fired from Turkey’s Defense Ministry, has been missing since Tuesday, according to Turkish deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu. Tweeting a photo of the vehicle belonging to Bilge Tunç, Tanrıkulu called on the Turkish interior...
by TurkeyPurge | May 5, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Büneyye Özmen, 29-year old Turkish woman and the mother of 7-month-old son has been sentenced to 10 years, 6 months in prison over her links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which is accused of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. The group denies...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 6, 2018 | Int'l Reactions
The Italian National Bar Association, Il Consiglio Nazionale Forense, released a statement on Thursday on the occasion of the Day of the Lawyer, marked every April 5 in Turkey, to extend their support for lawyers under arrest in Turkey. In the statement, the...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 24, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
An Ankara prosecutor is seeking a sentence of up to 54 months in prison for one of the co-founders of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), Abdüllatif Şener, on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in his Twitter messages. According to the...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 26, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Sanem Altan, the daughter of imprisoned author Ahmet Altan, has criticized the handing down of aggravated life sentences to his father and two other prominent journalists including Nazlı Ilıcak by a Turkish court last week, saying that the life sentence was nothing...