by TurkeyPurge | May 10, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Journalist Reyhan Capan, the managing editor of the now-defunct pro-Kurdish daily Ozgur Gundem, has been taken under police custody in Artvin’s Hopa district. Capan was detained upon an outstanding arrest warrant on Thursday. The journalist had been sentenced to 2...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 9, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Dismissed from his position as a civil servant at a state-run hospital, 48-year-old A.I.P. was sentenced to 6 years, 6 months and 22 days in prison. Under arrest for 10 months over his alleged ties to the Gulen movement, A.I.P was given jail term on accusation of...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 27, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
An İstanbul court on Thursday sentenced Kurdish journalist Arzu Demir to six years in prison over her two books on outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) over propaganda of terrorist organization. According to the decision by İstanbul 13th High Criminal Court, Demir...
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