by TurkeyPurge | Apr 4, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Detention warrant was issued for Kemal Özkiraz, the coordinatior of the Eurasia Public Opinion Research Centre (AKAM), media reported on Tuesday. Police raided Özkiraz’s home and workplace, to no avail. A lawyer representing him said Özkiraz would stop by the...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 22, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish public prosecutor’s offices on Sunday issued detention warrants for about 35 people on accusations of disseminating the propaganda of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in social media messages concerning a...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 11, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued an arrest warrant for academic Henri Barkey, director of the Middle East Program at the Washington-based Wilson Center, for being behind the Gezi protests of 2013, the corruption operations of Dec. 17-25 in 2013...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 9, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Amid visa crisis with the US over the arrest of a Turkish national working at the İstanbul Consulate General last week, media reported that Turkish authorities issued detention warrant for another US consulate staff on Sunday morning. According to a report by Hurriyet...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 2, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Detention warrants were issued for 177 former and on-duty police officers as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of a July 15 coup attempt on Thursday. The suspects included several police officers who were dismissed from...
73-year-old Kurdish man dies of Covid-19 in prison: report
1.5-year-old child joins mother in prison: report
Turkish journalist says Karabük police arrests 14 female university students in midnight raids
6-month pregnant jailed woman released on probation after almost 2 months in prison
Turkish Supreme Court of Appeals upholds 4-year prison time for leading opposition figure
24 former public officials detained in midnight raids for “providing financial support” to families of imprisoned “Gulenists”
6-month pregnant jailed woman hospitalized due to heavy breathing difficulty
Turkish court arrests military cadet for third time in 6 months
Retired engineer with Parkinson’s disease in prison for almost a year over coup, terror charges
Turkish pop singer deletes solidarity tweet for jailed women upon being criticized by pro-gov’t media