by TurkeyPurge | Oct 18, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
A prosecutor with the İstanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office has demanded arrest warrants for former Today’s Zaman Editor-in-Chief Bülent Keneş, Zaman daily columnist Kerim Balcı and Samanyolu TV Group (STV) US representative Şemsettin Efe on charges of links to a failed...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 2, 2016 | Torture
Allegations of severe overcrowding in Turkey’s post-coup prisons have proven to be true with a recently-arrested lawyer complaining about lack of space in holding cells in an anonymous letter. Ten arrestees are being held in a custody cell as small as 16 square...
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