by TurkeyPurge | Sep 16, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Kemal Özer, a reporter and nature photographer for Evrensel daily newspaper, was put in pretrial detention on terror charges on Friday. Detained in Tunceli province as part of an investigation into the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on Sept 4, Özer was...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 27, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Yusuf Karataş, a columnist at Evrensel daily newspaper, was put in pre-trial arrest as part of an investigation into the Democratic People’s Congress (DTK), the largest political forum gathering held by Kurdish non-governmental organizations in the recent past....
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 10, 2017 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown
Left-wing Turkish newspaper Evrensel reported on Sunday that Zeynep Tunçel, its reader and distributor were abducted and beaten by a group of unidentified people who accused her of resisting to the government. Tunçel took a phone call from an unknown number at 8.30 am...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 8, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Evrensel daily correspondent Cemil Uğur has been arrested on charges of membership to illegal organization and making propaganda on behalf of it. Halil İbrahim Polat and Cemil Uğur, both Mersin-based reporters for Evrensel daily, were detained on August 23, and the...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 15, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
The pro-government Yeni Akit daily ran a controversial story on Wednesday claiming that the government is planning to close down the leftist newspaper Evrensel, which the daily accused of being a mouthpiece of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). “While the...
Emotional reunion of 9-year-old daughter, disabled father after 20 months in Turkish prison
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