by TurkeyPurge | Feb 21, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Custom officers in Turkey’s Kocaeli has intercepted a container carrying personal belongings of the exiled businessman, Ahmet Nurettin Uğur, media reported Feb 20. The container, shipped from Kocaeli’s Derince port to the US, was carrying, among others, several ATM...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 9, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
At least 8 people were rounded up as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement on Tuesday. Stata-run Anadolu news agency said detention warrants were issued for 13 people in 3 provinces, Denizli, Kocaeli and Aksaray, over their alleged ties to the movement. 8...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 6, 2017 | Human Tragedies, Today in Crackdown
Nuriye Yalcin, a Kocaeli woman who is expected to deliver twin babies in 4.5 months was detained during a regular medical control at Izmit Medical Park Hospital on Tuesday. Accused of having links to the Gulen movement, Yalcin was held under police custody for 5 hours...
by TurkeyPurge | May 29, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Security personnel at one of the campuses of Kocaeli University has intervened in a group of new graduates who was posing with a banner that questions the authenticity of the President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s diploma. The allegation that Erdoğan do not possess a...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 28, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Ibrahim Uzun, an outspoken critic of the Darica municipality in Kocaeli, has said his bedridden mother was denied ambulance service just because of his criticism to the local administration. Elected as the Darica mayor on the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK...