by TurkeyPurge | Apr 4, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Turgay Şen, the general manager of the Orizont High School in Moldovan capital Chisinau claimed asylum in the country in order to escape from Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s long-arm that cracked down hard on Gulenists elsewhere. Sen was detained by Moldovan...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 15, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
The US-based think tank Freedom House, which has listed Turkey in his newly released report among the countries in which Internet freedoms are restricted most, stated that tens of thousands of Turkish citizens have been arbitrarily detained for their alleged use of...
by TurkeyPurge | May 6, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Ozan Kaplanoğlu, editor of the bursamuhalif.com online news portal and a board member of the Contemporary Journalists Association’s (ÇGD) Bursa branch, was arrested over terror charges, on Friday. Kaplanoğlu is accused of making propaganda on his social media accounts...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 1, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey has suffered a dramatic decline in freedoms in the last decade according to a report by Freedom House in which it presented the second highest decline in the world along with the African nation of Gambia. According to a new ranking by Freedom House that was...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 15, 2016 | Int'l Reactions
Turkey has fallen into the “not free” category of countries ranked by Freedom House in its Net 2016 report, with the NGO watchdog citing how Ankara suspends mobile and Internet connections in many different parts of the country while noting that “Pro government trolls...
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