by TurkeyPurge | Feb 26, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The family of visually impaired Turkish journalist Cüneyt Arat, who has been jailed over alleged ties to Turkey’s Gülen group, announced on Saturday that they could not find Arat in his ward in Tarsus Prison and that they have not been given any information...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 7, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Visually impaired Turkish journalist Cüneyt Arat, under arrest over alleged ties to the Gulen movement since July, last year, has said in a letter that he was denied access to Braille books as well as audio-described movies. Arat was sentenced on Feb. 22, 2017 to 6...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 1, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A letter sent by visually impaired Turkish journalist Cüneyt Arat, who was sent to prison last July due to alleged links to the Gülen group, shows that he is having a hard time surviving in prison because penal facilities are not set up for a disabled person. In the...
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by TurkeyPurge | Jul 10, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Visually impaired Turkish journalist Cüneyt Arat was sent to prison late on Monday due to his alleged links to the Gülen movement, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15, 2016. According to several tweets posted by a friend of...
by editor | Mar 19, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Adana police briefly detained visually impaired journalist Cüneyt Arat for “insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan” in a tweet he posted. Arat was detained by four police officers early on Wednesday and questioned on suspicion of “insulting” President...
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