by TurkeyPurge | Oct 17, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
The president of Turkey’s Constitutional Court said on Monday that a record number of individual petitions have been received by the court, with more than 40,000 submitted following a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15. Chief Justice Zühtü Arslan told a law congress...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 24, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Five people including cousins of the Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen have been detained in Erzurum’s Korucuk village. Earlier this month, police also detained a nephew of Gülen in İstanbul and his niece in Balıkesir. Critics have lambasted the government for a massive...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 20, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
The 19-year-old son of a former senior counter-terrorism official in Turkey was arrested over coup charges after his father implicated links between Turkish government and the terrorist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Ahmet Yayla, who served as the chief...
Turkey police detain 33 people in “terror” operations in İstanbul: report
Turkish police assault workers protesting gov’t restrictions ahead of International Workers’ Day
Purge-victim man with one kidney asks for release from prison due to deteriorating medical condition
Imprisoned Turkish brigadier general dies of Covid-19 in prison: report
Imprisoned Turkish academic hospitalized due to severe complications from COVID-19: report
Purge-victim Turkish judge dies of lung cancer weeks after being released from prison: CHP deputy
9-year-old drowns in Maritsa River in attempt to escape Turkey’s post-coup crackdown
Turkish parliament expels pro-Kurdish MP Gergerlioğlu over “terror” charges
Purge-victim police chief found dead in a quarantine cell in Turkish prison
Turkish mob boss: Erdogan gov’t asked me to murder American pastor Andrew Brunson