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...
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