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...
Turkish court jails 15 former public officials for “providing financial support” to families of imprisoned “Gulenists”
Turkish intelligence abducts Gülenists from Africa, Central Asia by paying bribes, says former intel official
17-week pregnant woman sent to Şanlıurfa prison over alleged Gulen links: report
Purge-victim Turkish businessman shares first picture from prison in 6 years
Karabuk court jails 5 female university students on terror charges
Turkish reporter Ayşenur Parıldak set free after spending some 6 years in prison
73-year-old Kurdish man dies of Covid-19 in prison: report
1.5-year-old child joins mother in prison: report
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