by TurkeyPurge | Aug 3, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
At least 41 prisoners have died of cancer related complications in prisons across Turkey between July 2016 and January 2021, the Bold news portal reported. 9 others still remain incarcerated over a variety of trumped-up terror charges, including alleged membership in...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 10, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Cem Şimşek, the news director of the Evrensel Daily, has been sentenced to 11 months, 20 days in prison for insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a reported published in 2015. The Bakırköy 27th penal court of first instance ruled on Thursday that the...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 30, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Sadrettin Sarıkaya, a judge who called Turkey’s İntelligence chief to testify as part of corruption investigations of December 17-25, 2013, which implicated then-Prime Minister Erdoğan, has been sentenced to 11 years and 3 months in prison on membership of the...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 17, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Kurdish journalist Lokman Sezgin has been sent to prison to serve the remainder of his prison sentences handed down by Turkish courts last year. According to Mezopotamya news portal, Sezgin was arrested by the police as he was getting a Covid-19 vaccine at a hospital...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 1, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on the Turkish parliament to pass laws that ban social media platforms, including Twitter and Netflix, due to the “recent increase of immoral acts” on these platforms. The President’s address came a day after...
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Dementia-suffering Kurdish politician released from prison
The head of Turkey’s doctors’ union sent to prison on terror accusations
Turkish police detain 543 people in 59 provinces over alleged Gülen links
Son of purge-victim judge jumps to his death from İstanbul’s Galata Tower
Constitutional court rejects jailed Kurdish youngster’s appeal for release
This Kurdish youngster in 6th year in Silivri prison on coup charges
14 more military cadets set free after 6 years in prison
Turkish gov’t seeks extradition of critical journalist Cevheri Güven
Purge-victim police officer dies after accident at a mining site in Gebze