by TurkeyPurge | May 22, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Kerim Çoraklık, the alleged head of the communications team of the opposition İYİ (Good) Party and an advisor to the party’s leader, Meral Akşener, who was detained on charges of disseminating the propaganda of the Gülen movement earlier this month, was arrested on...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 28, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Deniz Naki, a German football player with Kurdish roots will not return to his Turkey-based team, Amedspor over security concerns, Der Spiegel said Saturday. Naki wants to dissolve his contract with Amedspor and stay in Germany, 28-year-old’s lawyer Stephan Kuhn told...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 25, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A Kayseri man, identified only with his initials G.A., was detained for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on his social media accounts. State-run Anadolu news agency reported on Dec 24 that G.A. was rounded up by police and taken to a nearby police station for...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 22, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Five people were detained in Turkey’s Kayseri province on the grounds that they have made propaganda on behalf of the Gulen movement on social media. State-run Anadolu news agency reported on Oct 20 that police detained suspected 5 people after simultaneous raids on...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 27, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
“Edison wouldn’t have invented the bulb if he saw these days,” Atilla Taş, a jailed pop star turned journalist wrote on Twitter two years ago, in an apparent reference to the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AK Party) corporate logo. An indictment prepared...
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