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...
Turkish reporter Ayşenur Parıldak set free after spending some 6 years in prison
73-year-old Kurdish man dies of Covid-19 in prison: report
1.5-year-old child joins mother in prison: report
Turkish journalist says Karabük police arrests 14 female university students in midnight raids
6-month pregnant jailed woman released on probation after almost 2 months in prison
Turkish Supreme Court of Appeals upholds 4-year prison time for leading opposition figure
24 former public officials detained in midnight raids for “providing financial support” to families of imprisoned “Gulenists”
6-month pregnant jailed woman hospitalized due to heavy breathing difficulty
Turkish court arrests military cadet for third time in 6 months
Retired engineer with Parkinson’s disease in prison for almost a year over coup, terror charges