by TurkeyPurge | Mar 8, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for a total of 142 people across 32 provinces due to their alleged links to the Gülen movement. The individuals for whom detention warrants have been issued as part of a Konya-based operation are accused of using a...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 3, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Forty-one teachers have been detained in Turkey’s central Anatolian province of Konya in an operation targeting alleged followers of the faith-based Gülen movement. Detention warrants were issued for 54 teachers who were accused of using ByLock mobile application,...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 18, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Sixty-one more police officers have been arrested due to their use of a smart phone application called ByLock, raising the number of police officers under arrest as part of the same probe to 160. Turkish prosecutors claim that ByLock is the top communication tool...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 15, 2016 | Human Tragedies
In yet another example of human tragedies proliferated in the aftermath of the July 15 coup attempt, a Sinop woman lost her twins in jail after she was arrested due to the ByLock mobile application that she says has never downloaded. Turkish government claims that...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 15, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Konya police detained a prosecutor who has been in charge of investigating sympathizers of the Gülen movement over use of ByLock mobile application, after discovering that he also used the same app. The prosecutor, known as Fatih S. is said to have ordered the arrests...
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