by TurkeyPurge | Jul 25, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
A Manisa-based lawyer was remanded in prison on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a charge that carries a sentence of between one and four years, media reported Thursday. Detained at his home and subsequently put in pre-trial detention by a Turgutlu...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 20, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish lawyer Selçuk Kozağaçlı, former president of the now-closed Progressive Lawyers’ Association (ÇHD) who has been behind bars since November 2017 on terrorism charges, was handed down a sentence of 11 years, three months on Wednesday. The İstanbul 37th High...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 10, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Seventeen lawyers including Selçuk Kozağaçlı, president of the now-closed Progressive Lawyers’ Association (ÇHD) have begun a hunger strike in protest of the difficulties they face during their trial. Under arrest over terror charges since Nov, 2017, the lawyers are...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 2, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
At least three people were intercepted in Edirne while they were reportedly on their way to escape to Greece with illegal means, in the latest of such attempts aimed at avoiding Turkey’s post-coup crackdown. A lawyer; a medical professor who was earlier removed from...
by TurkeyPurge | May 25, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A Tokat lawyer, identified as G.B., has been detained at a police station where he/she originally came to defend his/her client, under custody over links to the Gulen movement. It turns out that a detention warrant was earlier issued for G.B. as part of the same...