by TurkeyPurge | Jun 11, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish government has closed down 15 universities across the country over their alleged links to the Gulen movement since last summer, leading 66,000 students to look for somewhere else to continue their education. The government shuttered under post-coup emergency...
by TurkeyPurge | May 31, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Former Zaman columnist and academic, Abdülkadir Civan was sentenced to 10 years and 5 months in prison over alleged membership to a terrorist organization, on May 26. Civan wrote columns for both Zaman and its sister publication, English-language Today’s Zaman; and...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
İştar Gözaydın, a leading law professor, was detained along with 13 other academics and staff from the now-closed Gediz University as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt, on Tuesday....