by TurkeyPurge | Dec 24, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
People who were imprisoned over “offenses against Constitutional order” are now required to wear dusty orange and gray jumpsuits, according to the government’s latest post-coup decree, issued early Sunday. “Those behind bars who were convicted of offences against the...
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by TurkeyPurge | Oct 26, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A 30-year-old hotel receptionist in Turkey’s resort district of Bodrum, identified only by his initials Ö.C.K, was detained for wearing a “hero” T-shirt on Thursday. Police rounded up Ö.C.K and cuffed his behind back before escorting him to the Bodrum police station....
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 28, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Gökhan Güçlü, a noncommissioned officer and one of the suspects on trial for an assassination attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on the night of a failed coup last year, face up to 5 years in prison for wearing a T-shirt that bore the word ‘hero’ during a...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 24, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
An 8-year-old boy was stripped of his T-shirt that bore the words ‘Super Dad’ during a visit to his father, under arrest for at least 14 months in Turkish government’s post-coup dragnet. A recent tip submitted to Magdur Mesajları, a Twitter account known for...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 23, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Mustafa Kaya, the district director of national education in Izmir’s Seferihisar was taken into custody over his picture taken near a ‘hero’ graffiti, on Friday. Kaya is accused of having links to the Gulen movement, which the government blames for the July 15, 2016...
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