by TurkeyPurge | Mar 5, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Arif Yilmaz, a medical professor and the former rector of the Recep Tayyip Erdogan University (RTEÜ), has been sentenced to 4 years and two months in jail. Accused of links to the Gulen movement, Yilmaz spent 11 months in pretrial detention before being released on...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 22, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Republican Peoples’ Party’s (CHP) local members in Rize were attacked by a group of government supporters during small-scale Justice March. Main opposition CHP, last week, kicked off Justice March, a 250-mile walk between Ankara and Istanbul, to protest the...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 4, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
At least 40 people were detained in Rize province as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement, on early Saturday. Accused of using ByLock smartphone application, the detainees included public servants, small business owners and businessmen working in private...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 16, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Four academics from the Rize-based Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University were detained in an operation on Wednesday that targeted followers of the Gülen movement for their use of a smart phone application. The detainees include Prof. Dr. Ekrem A., the former dean of the...
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