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Main opposition lawmaker faces life in prison in retrial for espionage charges

Main opposition lawmaker faces life in prison in retrial for espionage charges

by TurkeyPurge | Dec 2, 2017 | Today in Crackdown

A prosecutor on Friday demanded a life sentence in an İstanbul court for main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Enis Berberoğlu for leaking information to journalists for a report on National Intelligence Organization (MİT) trucks transporting weapons...
DIHA reporters face 45 years in prison over espionage charges

DIHA reporters face 45 years in prison over espionage charges

by TurkeyPurge | Nov 25, 2017 | Today in Crackdown

Erdoğan Alayumat and Nuri Akman, reporters for the government-closed, pro-Kurdish Dicle News Agency (DIHA), face 45 years in jail over espionage cases. Detained in Turkey’s eastern province of Gaziantep on July 13, 2017, Alayumat and Akman spent 13 days in custody...
Journalist Hidayet Karaca gets 31-year jail time over 2013 TV series

Journalist Hidayet Karaca gets 31-year jail time over 2013 TV series

by TurkeyPurge | Nov 3, 2017 | Today in Crackdown

Samanyolu Broadcasting Group General Manager Hidayet Karaca has been sentenced to 31 years in prison by an Istanbul court on charges of membership in a terrorist organization and for allegedly slandering the al-Qaeda-affiliated group Tahşiyeciler, Habertürk reported...
11 investigations launched against Turkish spies in Germany in 2017: report

11 investigations launched against Turkish spies in Germany in 2017: report

by TurkeyPurge | Oct 27, 2017 | Today in Crackdown

Germany’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office has initiated 11 preliminary investigations against suspected spies of the Turkey’s National Intelligence Agency (MIT) in 2017, according to media. The number of such investigations totals 19 in the past 5 years. In response...
Pro-gov’t journalist under custody over report on national intelligence chief

Pro-gov’t journalist under custody over report on national intelligence chief

by TurkeyPurge | Sep 22, 2017 | Today in Crackdown

Ömer Turan, the editor in chief of the pro-government online news portal Manset24, was detained on Thursday. Turan was detained over a report, published in Manset24 early on the same day, about an alleged relation between National Intelligence Agency (MİT) head Hakan...

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