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...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 2, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
The body of Zeynel Abidin Han, a Kurdish author, poet and translator who died in Berlin on Feb. 26 and was to be buried in his hometown of Muş in southeastern Turkey, was removed from a hearse upon an order from Justice and Development Party (AKP) Muş Mayor Feyat...
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