by TurkeyPurge | May 6, 2019 | Human Tragedies, Today in Crackdown
Firdevs Pekgüzel, the wife of the former prosecutor Mehmet Ali Pekgüzel who was jailed as part of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s post-coup crackdown, passed away following a traffic accident, according to sources. “People are dying on the way to visit their spouses...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 3, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Former Istanbul prosecutor Sadrettin Sarikaya has been held in solitary confinement for more than 500 days, according to his son. Sarikaya, the prosecutor who had called the intelligence chief Hakan Fidan for testimony as part of a 2012 investigation into the outlawed...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 15, 2018 | Int'l Reactions
Federal prosecutors in Switzerland are investigating whether Turkish diplomats and intelligence officers planned to drug and kidnap a Swiss-Turkish businessman shortly after the 2016 coup attempt in Turkey, local media said. A group of five including the diplomats...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 20, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
An Antalya couple, dismissed from their offices as judge and prosecutor, were detained as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement. The former judge, identified as Ayse D., was rounded up along with her husband Hakan D., a former prosecutor, following a police...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 11, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish prosecutor on Monday demanded aggravated life sentences for prominent journalists Ahmet Altan, Mehmet Altan and Nazlı Ilıcak for allegedly supporting a failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016, which the government accuses the faith-based Gülen movement of...