by TurkeyPurge | Oct 18, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
A prosecutor with the İstanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office has demanded arrest warrants for former Today’s Zaman Editor-in-Chief Bülent Keneş, Zaman daily columnist Kerim Balcı and Samanyolu TV Group (STV) US representative Şemsettin Efe on charges of links to a failed...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 10, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
“Be ready! If you look more closely, we have yet to finish this. We just inserted a comma,” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in a recent speech after narrating the story of a man who was killed by soldiers during a bloody coup attempt on July 15. According to TR724...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 7, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Political observer and owner of the MetroPoll polling company Professor Özer Sencar was detained after a police raid on his home in Ankara early Wednesday, a statement from his Twitter account announced later in the day. “On behalf of him, we share this information...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 7, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
A huge cleansing of Turkey’s state and other institutions is continuing as people from all walks of life find themselves being hunted down and taken into custody. At least 347people were arrested, while 339others were detained over the past 24 hours, according to...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 6, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
A huge cleansing of Turkey’s state and other institutions is continuing as people from all walks of life find themselves being hunted down and taken into custody. At least 225 people were arrested, while 255 others were detained over the past 24 hours, according to...