by TurkeyPurge | Jul 24, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Calgary-based Turkish-Canadian Davut Hanci was sentenced to 15 years in prison over his links to the Gulen movement, media said Friday. A court in Turkey’s Northwestern province of Trabzon gave Hancı, already under pre-trial detention for nearly 2 years, 15 years of...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 7, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Ece Heper, a 50-year-old Canadian-Turkish national, has joined the ranks of others who get punishment for insulting the President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Arrived in Turkey in mid-Nov, Heper was taken into custody in the eastern province of Kars on Dec. 30. Her friends...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 1, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Davut Hancı, a Calgary-based Canadian-Turkish imam who was detained in July over links to Turkey’s failed coup attempt on July 15, was granted a lawyer after nearly three months in solitary confinement in a Turkish prison. Calling the allegations against Hancı...
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