by TurkeyPurge | May 28, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The İstanbul 26th High Criminal Court handed down aggravated life sentences to 41 defendants on Friday, among them Ahmet Özdemir, who was fulfilling his mandatory military service and joined the army only five days before a coup attempt on July 15, 2016. He was...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 11, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Journalist Gökçe Fırat Çulhaoğlu, already under arrest for more than 17 months as part of the Turkish government’s post-coup crackdown, has been sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The lead colunnist for the leftist Türk Solu...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 13, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
At least 7,605 arrest warrants are outstanding as part of investigations into the Gulen movement in Turkey where the government has already put 50,344 people in pre-trial detention in its crackdown against the group since last summer. Turkish government accuses the...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 2, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Under arrest as part of a post-coup investigation into the Gulen movement, Aydın Sefa Akay, an Ankara-born United Nations (UN) judge faces up to 15 years in prison. Arrested on Sept 26, 2016, Akay is accused of membership to the movement, attempting to abolish...
by TurkeyPurge | May 26, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
At least 43 more companies were seized over coup charges between Apr 1 and May 24, bringing the total number of companies under the state-run Savings Deposit Insurance Fund’s (TMSF) control to 922. The companies in question were targeted as part of a sweeping state...
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Purge-victim disabled army veteran is in his 240th day of imprisonment on terror charges:
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