by TurkeyPurge | May 20, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Thirteen lawyers in Turkey’s Samsun prison were sentenced to varying lengths of prison sentence on Thursday. A total of 24 lawyers, under pre-trial detention for 21 months over their ties tohe Gulen movement, appeared before a Samsun court for their final hearing,...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 20, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Fethullah Gülen’s nephew Ahmet Ramiz Gülen was sentenced to 12 years in jail on charges of membership to a terror group. Under arrest for 20 months in a Gaziantep prison, Ahmet Ramiz was given 12 years of prison term on April 18, 2018. The court overseeing his case...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 1, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Dentist, identified as A.I.B., has been sentenced to 7.5 years of prison sentence nearly one and a half year after he was detained over NBA player Enes Kanter’s picture taken at the balcony of Istanbul clinic. A.I.B. was first jailed pending trial in October 2016 when...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 19, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Nurhayat Yildiz, a 29-year-old Sinop woman who miscarried her twins while in pretrial detention has been sentenced to 7.5 years in prison. According to journalist Cevheri Guven on Feb 12, Yildiz was given 7 years plus 6 months of prison sentence on charges of...
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