by TurkeyPurge | Apr 30, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Detention warrants were issued for 31 people as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement followers in Ankara. State-run Anadolu news agency reported Tuesday that the suspects consist of 15 military officers and 16 teachers who used to work at schools that were...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 10, 2019 | Int'l Reactions
Turkey has been arbitrarily jailing hundreds of lawyers and putting them on trial in the aftermath of the country’s failed military coup in July 2016, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The move is part of the Turkish authorities’ major assault on the...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 9, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Detention warrants were issued for 292 people over Gulen links in 6 provinces, state-run Anadolu news agency said Tuesday. Prosecutors in Ankara, İzmir, Konya, Adıyaman, Gaziantep and Kütahya provinces issued the warrants and police carried out raids to detain...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 30, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) said at least 64 members were detained in less than 24 hours before the election. 31 of them were remanded in prison pending trial, a statement by an HDP parliamentarian noted.. The number of people detained since the...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 26, 2019 | Int'l Reactions
An indictment accusing civic leader Osman Kavala and 15 others of financing and organizing mass protests in Turkey in 2013 in an attempt to overthrow the government provides no credible evidence of criminal activity, Human Rights Watch said on Monday. The defendants...
9-month pregnant inmate denied transfer to state hospital, will remain in jail
Four years ago today: Purge-victim commissioner dies of heart attack at a furniture factory
Purge-victim cadets set free after almost 6 years in prison on coup charges
48 public officials, including 21 active high-ranking diplomats, sent to prison over alleged terror links: report
13 women including university students sent to prison over coup, terror charges in Antalya
Purge-victim educators get 10 years in prison on “terror” charges
72-year-old businessman in solitary confinement for months in Ankara Sincan prison
Turkish authorities issue detention warrants for 53 public officials on terror, coup accusations
Imprisoned cancer patient denied release from prison once again
Turkish court jails 15 former public officials for “providing financial support” to families of imprisoned “Gulenists”