by TurkeyPurge | Jan 11, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Journalist and author Ahmet Altan, behind bars over coup charges for more than a year, was fined TL 7,000 [$2,500] for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. During the 5th hearing of the insult case, the court in charge convicted Altan and fined him TL 7,000. “My...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 20, 2017 | Human Tragedies
Muhammed Eray Özkul, the 12-year-old son of the Zonguldak-based former police officer Ender Özkul, has been diagnosed with cancer after his father was jailed in Turkish government’s post-coup dragnet. The father worked as a police officer for 15 years until he was...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 28, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A recent circular from a district director of Turkey’s Education Ministry asked principals to bring 50 students, three teachers and one administrator from every school in İstanbul’s Büyükçekmece district to a public rally scheduled to be held by President Recep Tayyip...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 16, 2016 | Hate Speech
One of the chief advisors of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Saadet Oruç, forced the limits of civility when she responded to a Twitter message from a French journalist who called Erdoğan a dictator, saying that the dictator is the journalist’s mother. French...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 7, 2016 | Int'l Reactions
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has announced a three-month extension of the state of emergency imposed after a failed July 15 coup attempt, giving him broad powers to rule by decree. He has launched a massive crackdown against followers of the self-exiled...
Turkish court jails 15 former public officials for “providing financial support” to families of imprisoned “Gulenists”
Turkish intelligence abducts Gülenists from Africa, Central Asia by paying bribes, says former intel official
17-week pregnant woman sent to Şanlıurfa prison over alleged Gulen links: report
Purge-victim Turkish businessman shares first picture from prison in 6 years
Karabuk court jails 5 female university students on terror charges
Turkish reporter Ayşenur Parıldak set free after spending some 6 years in prison
73-year-old Kurdish man dies of Covid-19 in prison: report
1.5-year-old child joins mother in prison: report
Turkish journalist says Karabük police arrests 14 female university students in midnight raids
6-month pregnant jailed woman released on probation after almost 2 months in prison