by TurkeyPurge | Feb 26, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Teoman Kadioglu, a columnist with the Posta newspaper for 15 years, has been fired over a tweet he posted about decreasing sales of a sister publication. “Hurriyet newspaper has a actual daily circulation of 28,000 in Istanbul. It is 60,000 in Turkey as a whole. Are...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 1, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s only Kurdish daily newspaper Rojnameya Welat has ceased its print edition as the printing house that publishes the newspaper was taken over by the government last week. Turkish authorities took control of the pro-Kurdish Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper and the...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 10, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish court on Friday evening decided to release Cumhuriyet daily Editor-in-Chief Murat Sabuncu and journalist Ahmet Şık while ruling for a continuation of the imprisonment of another defendant in the same trial, Cumhuriyet CEO Akın Atalay. “The days when we will...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 16, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Kemal Özer, a reporter and nature photographer for Evrensel daily newspaper, was put in pretrial detention on terror charges on Friday. Detained in Tunceli province as part of an investigation into the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on Sept 4, Özer was...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 21, 2017 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses
The pro-government Sabah daily has established a hotline to receive tips about the the Europe-based followers of the Gülen Movement, which the President along with top state officials pinned the blame on for the July 15 coup attempt. Sabah Avrupa, the newspaper’s...
Purge-victim military cadets demand justice in Toronto for jailed friends
Turkey issues detention warrants for 51 public officials, including 27 former army members
Paralyzed math teacher held in Kayseri prison since April 2017 over Gulen links
Former rector gets 6 years, 3 months in prison on Gulen links: report
Leaked photos show purge-victim police officer handcuffed to hospital bed during intubation: report
Purge-victim Turkish woman held in prison cell with 2 kids since January 2021: report
Turkish court jails Eskişehir man suffering from Huntington’s disease: report
66-year-old purge victim man dies in prison: report
Pro-Kurdish HDP politician gets 7 years, 6 months in prison on “terror” charges: report
1,576,566 people investigated over “terror accusations” since July 2016: Deva Party