by TurkeyPurge | Nov 30, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A 28-year-old Izmir lawyer, identified by his initials H.D., was detained at a hotel in the western resort of Marmaris where he was allegedly making plans to escape to the Greek island of Rhodes in the Aegean Sea. Mugla police detained H.D. when he stepped out of the...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 8, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Twenty people including nine children were detained detained in Turkey’s western province of Mugla while they were on their way to escape to the Greece, Dogan news agency reported on Nov 7. Dogan said some of the detainees had outstanding arrest warrants, earlier...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 28, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
B.A., the wife of former police chief Anadolu Atayun, who has already been under arrest for some 3 years, was put in pretrial detention after she was caught red handed while trying to illegally escape to Greece in a boat. Following a 34-hour chase launched upon a...
by TurkeyPurge | May 21, 2017 | Today in Crackdown, Turkey’s Exiled Journalists Speak Out
Eleven people were taken into custody while they were allegedly on their way to escape Turkey’s post-coup crackdown to a Greek island on Saturday. The suspects were detained on the shores of Dalaman in Mugla province over their alleged links to the Gulen movement,...