by TurkeyPurge | Dec 7, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish authorities have issued an arrest warrant for journalist Can Dündar as part of an investigation into the anti-government Gezi Park protests in İstanbul in 2013 against the rule ofthen-Prime Minister and current President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the state-run...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 28, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Pro-government journalist Ahmet Kekec said Thursday that Turkey’s intelligence agency (MIT) should abduct Can Dundar, a critical journalist who has been in exile in Germany for some time now. In his column on Star daily, Kekec called Dundar traitor and defied the...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 2, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
An İstanbul court on Monday issued an arrest warrant in absentia and sought an Interpol Red Notice for exiled Turkish journalist Can Dündar, the former editor-in-chief of the critical Cumhuriyet daily, over a story he published about Turkish intelligence trucks...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 9, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s high court has overruled 5-year term given to former Editor-in-Chief of the Cumhuriyet daily, Can Dündar, asking for heavier sentence on “espionage” charges with potential 15 to 20-years in prison. Dündar lambasted the court ruling in a...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 7, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The İstanbul 14th High Criminal Court on Tuesday overturned a regional court of justice decision made on October 9 overturning a prison sentence of 25 years to main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Enis Berberoğlu over a report on National...