by TurkeyPurge | Jan 7, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Writer and poet Fadıl Öztürk was detained early Friday, according to Artigercek, an online news outlet where he writes weekly columns. At least 6 plainclothes police officers raid Öztürk’s home in Izmir and detained him on charges of making propaganda on behalf of a...
by TurkeyPurge | May 26, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
76-year-old Abdullah Nefes and 73-year-old Selah Özakın, the two veteran Turkish poets are set to kick off a hunger strike on May 29, protesting the recent arrests of Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakaça, two dismissed educators who were imprisoned on the 76th day of their...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 25, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Poet and author Yılmaz Odabaşı on Wednesday received a suspended jail sentence of one year, eight months for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in a column in 2015. Odabaşı announced the verdict on his Twitter account. Insulting the president is...
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