by TurkeyPurge | Jan 22, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
An 81-year-old Turkish man, who is known as a “longtime friend of Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen, was detained by police in the Turkish province of İzmir on Monday due to his links to the Gülen group, accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a failed coup in...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 8, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Garanti BBVA, a financial services company based in Turkey, refused to open a checking account to a purge-victim medical doctor because he had been dismissed from his job by a government decree in the aftermath of a 2016 failed coup. Pro-Kurdish HDP Deputy Ömer Faruk...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 20, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
An Edirne parent has been put in pre-trial detention by a Turkish court over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which is accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. According to Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, one of Turkey’s most...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 24, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Two new decress issued by the Turkish government on Sunday morning granted a whole scale immunity for all crimes, including murder, committed by civilians to supress a coup attempt on July 15, 2016 and “any event that is a continuation of it”. According to...
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