by TurkeyPurge | Jun 19, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Hakan Gülseven, a Turkish columnist for the Yurt daily, was sent to prison on Tuesday in Balıkesir province after the daily failed to pay a fine resulting from an earlier conviction over an “offensive column” Gülseven wrote in 2014. According to the...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 30, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
14 people including journalist Hakan Gülseven detained for alleged terrorist propaganda and allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on social media, on Friday. The suspects taken under custody as part of an Izmir-based operation with Gulseven rounded up in...