by TurkeyPurge | May 11, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Tuna Altınel, a mathematics professor at France’s Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University., was arrested on terrorism charges in Turkey’s Balikesir. Media reported May 11 that Altinel stopped by a police station in Balikesir, seeking to get information about a...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 5, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish academic Büşra Ersanlı was sentenced to 1 years and 3 months in prison for signing signing a petition in 2016 criticizing the Turkish government for its violation of human rights and civilian casualties among the predominantly Kurdish population of eastern...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 15, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Şahap Kavcıoğlu, a deputy from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), said academics, journalists and politicians who signed a peace declaration in 2016 do not deserve to live, Gazete Duvar reported on Tuesday. Signatories of a peace declaration titled...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 19, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Nilgün Toker, the head of philosophy department at İzmir’s Ege University until she was dismissed, has said she was not even allowed to pack her belonging at her former office at the university. Toker is among 631 academics who were dismissed in the latest post-coup...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 8, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s latest post-coup government decree implicated, among others, 41 academics who signed a long-debated declaration that criticized Turkish military action in the largely Kurdish southeast. Published in early this year, the declaration accuses the government of...
Purge-victim military cadets demand justice in Toronto for jailed friends
Turkey issues detention warrants for 51 public officials, including 27 former army members
Paralyzed math teacher held in Kayseri prison since April 2017 over Gulen links
Former rector gets 6 years, 3 months in prison on Gulen links: report
Leaked photos show purge-victim police officer handcuffed to hospital bed during intubation: report
Purge-victim Turkish woman held in prison cell with 2 kids since January 2021: report
Turkish court jails Eskişehir man suffering from Huntington’s disease: report
66-year-old purge victim man dies in prison: report
Pro-Kurdish HDP politician gets 7 years, 6 months in prison on “terror” charges: report
1,576,566 people investigated over “terror accusations” since July 2016: Deva Party