by TurkeyPurge | Jun 4, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
İlker Yücel, editor-in-chief of the Aydınlık daily, which is affiliated with the ultranationalist Homeland Party (VP) of Doğu Perinçek, was arrested by a court after being detained in Turkey’s Iğdır province on Saturday. “I have been detained in Iğdır for not...
by TurkeyPurge | May 19, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
French photojournalist Mathias Depardon, who was detained on May 8 after photographing the local scenery in Turkey’s southeastern Batman province, has been waiting to be deported for 10 days in a prison cell, Turkish media reports said on Friday. Depardon, who was...
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by TurkeyPurge | May 12, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Oğuz Güven, the internet editor of the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper was detained in early Friday. “I am being taken into custody,” Güven tweeted without elaborating on the charges raised against him. Cumhuriyet’s editor in chief Murat Sabuncu was, in early...
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