by TurkeyPurge | Nov 30, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A 28-year-old Izmir lawyer, identified by his initials H.D., was detained at a hotel in the western resort of Marmaris where he was allegedly making plans to escape to the Greek island of Rhodes in the Aegean Sea. Mugla police detained H.D. when he stepped out of the...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 26, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A 30-year-old hotel receptionist in Turkey’s resort district of Bodrum, identified only by his initials Ö.C.K, was detained for wearing a “hero” T-shirt on Thursday. Police rounded up Ö.C.K and cuffed his behind back before escorting him to the Bodrum police station....
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 23, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A total of 10 people were detained near Turkey’s maritime border with Greece with most of them escaping from the government’s post-coup crackdown, Dogan news agency reported on Monday. Coast guard in Mugla stopped a speedboat off the shores of the resort town...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 5, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Seven people were stripped naked with their hands tied on their back before they were detained as part of an investigation into the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), in Turkey’s resort province of Mugla on Monday. Gendarmerie stopped a car in a rural area upon...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 20, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A total of nine teachers who used to work for a private college, linked to the Gulen movement, were detained on Tuesday. The suspects, earlier removed from their jobs under emergency rule, were rounded up as part of a post-coup probe in Mugla’s resort district of...