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...
Kurdish politician sentenced to 20 months in prison for spreading “terrorist propaganda”
Covid-19 patient sent to prison in a specially designed jumpsuit over Gulen links: report
Detention warrants issued for 113 people over alleged Gülen links: report
Visually impaired lawyer in prison for 275 days over Gulen links: report
Purge-victim disabled army veteran is in his 240th day of imprisonment on terror charges:
800 days ago today: Purge-victim Ankara man goes missing
Mazlumder says Council of Forensic Medicine needs to be shut down over “false” medical report
One-armed man held in İzmir prison for 5 years over Gulen links: report
Opposition leader says Kavala and Demirtaş in prison over trumped-up charges: report
COVID-19 outbreak reported at Antalya prisons