by TurkeyPurge | Feb 27, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Ahmet Keser, a presenter for the pro-government Akit TV station, on Tuesday reacted to news stories that Turkey is killing civilians in the Afrin region of Syria, saying if they were to kill civilians they would start with people critical of the government living in...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 11, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Yusuf Ozan, a presenter for the pro-government Akit TV, on Sunday targeted the Cumhuriyet daily over a story it ran on the Afrin operation in Syria, saying Cumhuriyet journalists deserve to be executed. Commenting on a Cumhuriyet report about 11 Turkish soldiers...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 5, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Journalist Turgut Usul who was earlier sacked from the state-run broadcaster TRT has been arrested pending trial on terror charges. Removed from his TRT job with a government’s post-coup decree, Usul was arrested as part of an Ankara-based investigation into the Gulen...