by TurkeyPurge | Oct 18, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The former police chief of Diyarbakir’s Sur district was detained along with his brother in Turkey’s border province of Edirne while they were reportedly on their ways for an illegal exit to Greece. According to state-run Anadolu news agency, S.A., the police chief...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 3, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Under arrest for nearly 5 months, retired police chief Ahmet Tatar has passed away after a heart attack in Osmaniye prison. Tatar, retired from his position as the head of the Diyarbakır Regional Police’s traffic division in 2015, suffered a heart attack on Aug 1 and...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 24, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
M.G., a former police chief in Van province who was dismissed as part of post-coup crackdown on Gülen movement, was detained near Turkey’s Greek border in Edirne. M.G. was rounded up by gendarmerie in Abdürrahim village in Edirne’s Enez district, on Friday. While an...
by TurkeyPurge | May 11, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Ali Fuat Yılmazer, the former chief of the intelligence unit at the Istanbul Police headquarters who had been detained following the 2013 government corruption probe, was sentenced to 1 year and 6 months in prison for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 3, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Police chief, identified with initials, M.S.Ç. was detained in Edirne province while he was allegedly on his way to escape to Greece, on Friday. Gendarmerie rounded up M.S.Ç. near Keşan district along with Y.A., another Turkish man who was claimed to be abetting...
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