by TurkeyPurge | May 26, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Kimse Yok Mu charity foundation’s local representative in Turkey’s Black Sea province of Corum, identified with his initials E.A., has been sentenced to 8 years and 9 months in prison. Corum 2nd High Criminal Court handed over its verdict in a case involving E.A. and...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 27, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Memduh Çıkmaz, a Turkish businessman who was earlier detained in Sudan at Turkey’s request, has been returned back home and jailed pending trial over ties to the Gülen movement. “FETO’s money safe was brought back to Turkey with MIT [Turkey’s National Intelligence...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 19, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Halil Aykul, a mechanical engineering professor and the former dean of the engineering faculty at Turkey’s Hitit University, was sentenced to 6 years, 10 months and 15 days in jail over terror charges. Dismissed from his faculty job over his alleged links to the Gulen...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 8, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Sudanese law enforcement detained Turkish businessman Memduh Çıkmaz at Ankara’s request as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement. Çıkmaz was detained in the capital city of Khartoum on Wednesday and denied request to meet his lawyer and family members,...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 29, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish police have detained 23 people in a Corum-based probe on accusations that they use a smart phone application known as ByLock, on Aug 28. According to state-run Anadolu agency, arrest warrants were issued for 33 people in eight provinces as part of an...
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