by TurkeyPurge | Jan 17, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
An Istanbul court has turned down requests that were launched for the release of veteran journalists Ahmet Şık, Murat Sabuncu and Akın Atalay three days ago. Lawyers representing the three Cumhuriyet journalists submitted petitions to the Istanbul court overseeing the...
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by TurkeyPurge | Dec 6, 2016 | Int'l Reactions
Authoritarianism in the form of political Islam revealed its true face in Turkey during Gezi Park Protests, tested its sovereignty by unlawfully responding to operations against corruption scandals in December 17-25 period and by forming collusive alliances. After 15...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 17, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
The president of Turkey’s Constitutional Court said on Monday that a record number of individual petitions have been received by the court, with more than 40,000 submitted following a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15. Chief Justice Zühtü Arslan told a law congress...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 23, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) on Friday asked the country’s top court to annul a government decree numbered 668 which was issued during a state of emergency declared in the wake of a military coup attempt of July 15. In...
Turkish journalist says Karabük police arrests 14 female university students in midnight raids
6-month pregnant jailed woman released on probation after almost 2 months in prison
Turkish Supreme Court of Appeals upholds 4-year prison time for leading opposition figure
24 former public officials detained in midnight raids for “providing financial support” to families of imprisoned “Gulenists”
6-month pregnant jailed woman hospitalized due to heavy breathing difficulty
Turkish court arrests military cadet for third time in 6 months
Retired engineer with Parkinson’s disease in prison for almost a year over coup, terror charges
Turkish pop singer deletes solidarity tweet for jailed women upon being criticized by pro-gov’t media
Turkish court jails 80-year-old couple on terror charges
Erdogan-critic Turkish cleric once again sent to prison on “terror” charges