by TurkeyPurge | Aug 2, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s Education Ministry has removed 301,878 books from schools across the country so far and destroyed them as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown on the Gulen movement. In response to a parliamentary question by an opposition deputy, Education Minister...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 1, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
The Ankara Bar Association on Thursday released a statement reporting that four Gülen followers who turned up in police custody after being missing since February are not allowed to see any lawyers. According to the statement, both the lawyers tasked by the bar and...
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by TurkeyPurge | Jun 2, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
A total of twenty-three people including 6 children were intercepted while they were reportedly on their way to escape to Greek islands in the Aegean Sea. Media reported Sunday that the group was rounded up in a boat near Ciplak Island off Balikesir’s resort district...
by TurkeyPurge | May 31, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
A former top judge who was jailed as part of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s post-coup crackdown has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Former Supreme Court of Appeals member Turgut Emiroğlu was convicted of membership to the Gulen movement, a broadened terror...
by TurkeyPurge | May 29, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Journalist İbrahim Varlık, who used to work for the now-closed Cihan news agency, has been arrested, according to journalist Ahmet Dönmez. Dönmez, formerly with the now-closed Zaman daily and currently living in exile, announced the news of Varlık’s arrest from his...
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