by TurkeyPurge | Feb 15, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Ayten Sarıkaya Kesler, a 53-year-old Turkish woman with stage 2 cancer, sent to prison on February 12 after being detained at an İstanbul airport upon her arrival from Switzerland, the Cumhuriyet daily reported. The daily said that there was an outstanding arrest...
by TurkeyPurge | May 17, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish expatriate living in Germany has been detained in his hometown of Afyonkarahisar on charges of insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the nation’s founder, the Hurriyet daily reported on Wednesday. B.A. allegedly insulted...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 18, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Çağrı Sarı, the managing editor of leftist daily Evrensel has been given 11 months 20 days prison sentence for insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. According to the daily, Sarı found guilty for insulting the president in a column she publish on January...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 1, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Fourteen people in İzmir and the chief editor of the Redaktif website, Hakan Gülseven, in Balıkesir were detained on Friday on grounds of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Diken news portal reported. Fourteen social media users have been accused of...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 10, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish journalist was arrested on Tuesday night for allegedly “insulting” Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, while another one arrested on the same day over “disseminating propaganda” on behalf of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Journalists Togay...
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