by TurkeyPurge | Mar 28, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Duygu Erol, a reporter with the Jinnews news agency said she was asked to work as a spy while she was under police custody last week. Detained along with 10 others over terror charges on March 20, Erol spent 4 days before being released on judicial control. In a press...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 4, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
At least 664 people were detained as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement over the past week. In a written statement on Monday, the Interior Ministry said 664 people were rounded up in operations targeting the Gülen movement between Nov 27 and Dec 4....
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 18, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Thirty-five people in Izmir province were detained as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement, which the government accuses of leading the July 15, 2016 coup attempt, on Monday. State-run Anadolu news agency reported that police carried out simultenaous...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 21, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Two workers at a Sakarya factory and a waiter in Turkey’s Antalya province were detained for wearing Hero T-shirts on Friday. 29-year-old M.S. put on a Hero T-shirt before going to work at a 5-stor hotel in Antalya’s Serik district on Thursday. Upon complaints from...
by TurkeyPurge | May 16, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Torture
İbrahim Halil Baran, the chairman of Partiya Kurdistani (PAKURD), has said he was tortured during the 13 days he was in detention, the Grihat news website reported on Saturday. Baran, who was detained on Jan. 11 and arrested on Jan. 23 for disseminating the propaganda...
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