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...
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