by TurkeyPurge | Nov 29, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish prosecutor has announced that he seeks life sentences for 59 suspects, among them police chiefs who led Dec 25, 2013 corruption operation against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s son Bilal Erdogan and some pro-government businessmen. Istanbul prosecutor...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 10, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Former police chief Anadolu Atayun, under arrest for more than 3 years now over his links to the Gulen movement, has been sentenced to 40 years plus 6 months in prison. Put in pre-trial detention in May 2015 , the former head of the Konya police’s anti-smuggling and...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 2, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish composer Erdal Guney was sentenced to nearly 12 months in prison for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a 2014 single. Guney was given 11 months and 20 days in prison for insulting the President in his song, titled Babacigim [Daddy], Birgun daily...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 4, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Three employees of Turkish-Iranian gold trader Reza Zarrab were detained as part of the Turkish government’s latest response to the businessman’s guilty plea in a US trial that implicated President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s close circle. Zarrab’s employees Sinem Arslan,...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 18, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The wives of former police chiefs including Ömer Köse, Nazmi Ardıç and Mustafa Demirhan, who led corruption operations against the government in 2013 and an operation into the Iran-backed Tevhid-Selam network in Turkey in 2010, have been detained, the TR724 news...
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