by TurkeyPurge | May 13, 2019 | Human Tragedies, Today in Crackdown
Psychiatry professor Haluk Savaş said he was denied passport due to the fact that he had been dismissed as part of the Turkish government’s post-coup crackdown. Savaş was earlier held under arrest for months over his alleged links to the Gülen movement before he was...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 25, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish government has removed restrictions on 155,350 passports that it revoked in the aftermath of the July 15, 2016 failed coup however there are at least 80,000 people are still banned from leaving the country with their travel documents. The Turkish Ministry of...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 7, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Bülent Taş, a Turkish-German humor writer and theater director, was deported from Turkey after he was kept in police custody for two days on the grounds that he looked “suspicious,” the artigercek news website reported on Friday. Taşkın, who travelled to İzmir for a...
by TurkeyPurge | May 6, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chair Sezai Temelli’s passport was seized at the Istanbul Ataturk Airport on Saturday. Temelli arrived at the Ataturk Airport to take his Brussels-bound flight early in the morning. Airport police stopped Temelli at the...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 15, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A 37-year-old businessman, named Yavuz Bulbul took refuge at Austrian police after officers at the Turkish consulate general in Vienna attempted to seize his passport over links to the Gulen movement. According to Turkish and Austrian sources, Bulbul, on Tuesday,...
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