by TurkeyPurge | May 17, 2022 | Today in Crackdown
Ayşenur Parıldak, a Turkish journalist for the now-closed Zaman daily, has been released from prison after serving a six-year jail term on charges of membership in a “terrorist” organization. Parıldak took to Twitter on Tuesday to let everyone know that...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 2, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish businessman and activist Osman Kavala turns 64 in İstanbul’s notorious Silivri Prison where he has been held in pre-trial detention since November 2017 on terror and coup charges. Detained upon his arrival to İstanbul’s Atatürk airport late on Oct 18, Kavala...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 16, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
An online petition has been launched to support a “March of Justice” that will be carried out by the mother of one of the military cadets who were jailed in the aftermath of a failed military coup in July 2016. Melek Çetinkaya, the mother of Furkan Çetinkaya, one of...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 14, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
The mother of one of the military cadets who were jailed in the aftermath of a failed military coup in July 2016, is about to start a “March of Justice” from Turkey’s capital of Ankara to İstanbul in protest of the imprisonment of her son and other cadets on terror,...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 9, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
The İstanbul 26th High Criminal Court on Tuesday ruled for a continuation of the incarceration of five defendants, including veteran journalists Ahmet Altan and Nazlı Ilıcak, who stand accused of supporting a 2016 coup attempt in Turkey, the state-run Anadolu news...
Emotional reunion of 9-year-old daughter, disabled father after 20 months in Turkish prison
Dementia-suffering Kurdish politician released from prison
The head of Turkey’s doctors’ union sent to prison on terror accusations
Turkish police detain 543 people in 59 provinces over alleged Gülen links
Son of purge-victim judge jumps to his death from İstanbul’s Galata Tower
Constitutional court rejects jailed Kurdish youngster’s appeal for release
This Kurdish youngster in 6th year in Silivri prison on coup charges
14 more military cadets set free after 6 years in prison
Turkish gov’t seeks extradition of critical journalist Cevheri Güven
Purge-victim police officer dies after accident at a mining site in Gebze