by TurkeyPurge | Nov 30, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
İsmail Türk, the editor-in-chief of the online news portal Haber Erk and a former columnist for the Yenicag daily newspaper has been taken into custody over his alleged ties to the Gulen movement. Ankara police caught Turk at Esenboga airport as part of an...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 31, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
BengüTürk TV Editor-in-Chief Murat Ide said on Mar 30 that he was fired for resisting against saying “Yes” in the upcoming presidential referendum that is expected to boost President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s power. BengüTürk is a private TV channel known to...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 20, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Olcay Kılavuz, president of the Nationalist Movement Party’s (MHP) youth wing the Grey Wolves (Ülkü Ocakları), said on Sunday that they don’t want tension in Turkey but that they can take up arms and fight the country’s local and external enemies if necessary....