by TurkeyPurge | Jul 21, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish court ruled to put Isa Ozdemir, a suspected follower of the Gulen movement who was abducted in Azerbaijan by Turkish intelligence agency, has been put in pre-trial detention in Ankara. Ozdemir, wanted on accusation of membership to the Gulen movement in...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 21, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The Turkish journalist Yusuf Inan’s forced return from Ukraine to Turkey is worrisome, Sergei Tomilenko, the chairman of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NSJU) said Wednesday. “For international partners of the NSJU, in particular the International and...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 18, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
More than 100 people were forcibly returned from abroad as part of the Turkish government’s post-coup crackdown against the Gulen movement, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said. Speaking to media on the second anniversary of the July 15, 2016 failed coup, Cavusoglu...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 15, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish Intelligence Agency (MIT) has abducted yet another follower of the Gulen movement and forced him back to Turkey in the latest of such forced returns by the organization. “Yusuf Inan, a FETO-linked social media expert, who fled to Ukraine after the 2016...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 3, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Former Istanbul prosecutor Sadrettin Sarikaya has been held in solitary confinement for more than 500 days, according to his son. Sarikaya, the prosecutor who had called the intelligence chief Hakan Fidan for testimony as part of a 2012 investigation into the outlawed...