by TurkeyPurge | Sep 20, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
At least 17 teachers in three provinces were detained as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement early Wednesday. Detention warrants were issued for 20 teachers in an Aksaray-based probe while police were able to locate 17 of them as of mid-day. The suspects...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 2, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Fatih Mehmet Aksoy, a Kırşehir judge who has been overseeing an investigation into the police officers who was alleged to have used controversial ByLock mobile application, was suspended over the same charges. Turkish prosecutors claim that ByLock is the top...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 17, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish police detained 22 local politicians from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in Kırşehir province over alleged links to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Turkish media outlets reported that late on Saturday police conducted simultaneous raids on...
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