by TurkeyPurge | Jan 5, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Journalists Cem Küçük and Fuat Uğur, staunch supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, called on the government to seize all assets of people linked to the Gülen movement to pay off a fine the US Treasury is expected to impose on Turkish state lender...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 7, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey has seized a private jet and a luxury yacht owned by Turkish-Iranian gold trader Reza Zarrab as part of the government’s latest response to the businessman’s guilty plea in a US trial that implicated President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s close circle. Istanbul...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 29, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Cemal Yavas, the brother-in-law of the former prosecutor Zekeriya Oz, who led corruption and bribery operations against the Turkish government back in 2013, was arrested. Yavaş was detained as part of a Bursa-based investigation into the Gulen movement and was...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 18, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The wives of former police chiefs including Ömer Köse, Nazmi Ardıç and Mustafa Demirhan, who led corruption operations against the government in 2013 and an operation into the Iran-backed Tevhid-Selam network in Turkey in 2010, have been detained, the TR724 news...