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...
Emotional reunion of 9-year-old daughter, disabled father after 20 months in Turkish prison
Dementia-suffering Kurdish politician released from prison
The head of Turkey’s doctors’ union sent to prison on terror accusations
Turkish police detain 543 people in 59 provinces over alleged Gülen links
Son of purge-victim judge jumps to his death from İstanbul’s Galata Tower
Constitutional court rejects jailed Kurdish youngster’s appeal for release
This Kurdish youngster in 6th year in Silivri prison on coup charges
14 more military cadets set free after 6 years in prison
Turkish gov’t seeks extradition of critical journalist Cevheri Güven
Purge-victim police officer dies after accident at a mining site in Gebze