by TurkeyPurge | Jan 11, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Journalist and author Ahmet Altan, behind bars over coup charges for more than a year, was fined TL 7,000 [$2,500] for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. During the 5th hearing of the insult case, the court in charge convicted Altan and fined him TL 7,000. “My...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 6, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Veteran journalist Aysenur Arslan was sentenced to 11 months and 20 days in prison for insulting Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The sentence was suspended. An Ankara court ruled Friday that Arslan had insulted Erdogan during her 2015 comments criticizing a government decision...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 4, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Pro-Kurdish Republican Peoples’ Party (HDP) Şırnak deputy Leyla Birlik was sentenced to 1 year and 9 months in prison for insulting Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Wednesday. A Şırnak deputy sentenced Birlik to one and a half year in prison, and increased the punishment by...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 3, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) leader Selahattin Demirtas was fined TL 15,000 ($5,500) for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Media reported Tuesday that an Ankara ruled that Demirtas insulted Erdogan during a HDP rally in the southern province of...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 25, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A Kayseri man, identified only with his initials G.A., was detained for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on his social media accounts. State-run Anadolu news agency reported on Dec 24 that G.A. was rounded up by police and taken to a nearby police station for...
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