by TurkeyPurge | Mar 20, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Two journalists from pro-Kurdish media organizations Mezopotamya news agency and Jinnews were briefly detained in Mardin on Wednesday. Media reported that Ahmet Kanbal from Mezopotamya and Rojda Aydin from Jinnews were taken into custody while they were in front of...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 8, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Ugur Akgul, a reporter for the now-closed, pro-Kurdish DIHA news agency has been jailed, media said Wednesday. Akgul was arrested after a Turkish court upheld his conviction due to his reports on the government-imposed curfews in Turkey’s east. The journalist had...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 30, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Russia’s state-controlled Sputnik news agency has closed down its Kurdish-language website and a request by Turkish government was behind the move, according to media. Former employees of Sputnik Kurdish claim that the news agency terminated its service in Kurdish...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 16, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Nedim Türfent, a reporter for the now defunct pro-Kurdish Dicle News Agency (DIHA) was sentenced to 8 years and 9 months in prison on Friday. The sentence was handed down on accusations of membership to a terrorist organization. Under arrest since May 2016, Türfent...
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...
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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