by TurkeyPurge | Nov 21, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Cumhuriyet daily’s website editor Oğuz Güven was given 3 years and 1 month jail time on two separate terror charges on Tuesday. Arrested in May due to a tweet on the newspaper’s Twitter account regarding the death of Denizli Chief Public Prosecutor Mustafa Alper, who...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 9, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A prosecutor is seeking a jail sentence of up to 10.5 years for Cumhuriyet daily’s website editor Oğuz Güven, who has been behind bars since May 15, on terror charges due to the headline of a story on the daily’s website. Güven is being accused of making the...
by TurkeyPurge | May 12, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Oğuz Güven, the internet editor of the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper was detained in early Friday. “I am being taken into custody,” Güven tweeted without elaborating on the charges raised against him. Cumhuriyet’s editor in chief Murat Sabuncu was, in early...