by TurkeyPurge | Apr 2, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Ufuk Sen health workers’ union’s local representative in Kirsehir was sentenced to 12 years in prison, state-run Anadolu news agency said Monday. Ufuk Sen was earlier closed down over its links to the Gulen movement. A medical worker and the union’s local...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 17, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Ali Furkan Yabaneri, a 24-year-old electrical engineering student at Istanbul’s prestigious Koç University, died of an overdose months after his father was jailed as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown. Local media said Yabaneri committed suicide at his...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 25, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The chief physician of the Akpınar State Hospital in Kirsehir province, identified only by his initials C.K., has been caught and put in pretrial detention over his alleged use of ByLock. State-run Anadolu news agency reported on Saturday that police detained C.K. at...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 30, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Murat Baran, the owner of the Kırsehir-based Baran pharmacy store and the president of the Kırşehir Ahi Businessmen Association (KAHİAD) until it was shut down by the government, was sentenced to 42 years and 6 months in prison. The court also handed over TL130,000...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 9, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A Kirsehir court handed down 10-year prison term each to seven people who used to work as managers at the student dormitories, closed over their links to the Gulen movement, on Oct 4. During the final hearing of a trial against the movement in the central Anatolian...