by TurkeyPurge | Apr 19, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Koray Çalışkan, an associate professor who was put in house arrest on July 10 as part of an investigation into 20 university academics, has been sentenced to one year, six months and 22 days in prison for disseminating the propaganda of Gülen movement on social media....
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 1, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The state-run Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) has banned the broadcasting of a total of 208 songs, 142 Turkish and 66 Kurdish, on its 14 TV stations for reasons that were not made clear to the public. According to the Hürriyet daily, Some of these songs...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 10, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish police teams on Monday detained 72 academics working at İstanbul’s Boğaziçi and Medeniyet universities over alleged links to the Gülen movement, the Doğan news agency has reported. According to the report, the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office is...
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