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...
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...
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...
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...
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...