by TurkeyPurge | Aug 9, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
At least 12 teachers were taken into custody as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement in Turkey’s capital, Ankara. Media said Thursday that an Ankara prosecutor issued warrants for 12 teachers who used to work at a school which has been closed over...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 9, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Nuriye Gülmen, a former teacher who is popular for the months-long hunger strike she carried out in protest of her dismissal from the post, was re-detained on Wednesday. “Our clients Nuriye Gülmen ve Mehmet Dersulu were detained in Bodrum,” a local...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 3, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The mother of Semih Özakça, a primary school teacher who went on a hunger strike after he was fired by government decree in the aftermath of a July 15 coup attempt in Turkey, has been detained. Özakça’s mother, Sultan, was detained along with Beyza, the sister of the...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 27, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
An Ankara court rejected the prosecutor in charge’s request for the release of Nuriye Gülmen, a former teacher who launched a hunger strike after being removed from the job as part of the government’s post-coup purge. Under arrest over terror charges since late May,...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 2, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The Ankara Governor’s Office has announced that a ban has been imposed on all protest activities and demonstrations in the city for a period of three months effective as of Nov 1. The decision was made on the intellingence that some groups were planning to organize...
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