by TurkeyPurge | Mar 17, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Rabia Baser, the wife of the now-dismissed judge Mustafa Baser was sentenced to 7 years and 6 months in prison on terror charges on Wednesday. Mrs. Baser rejected the accusation that she is a member of the Gulen movement during her final hearing. However, the court in...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 30, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
An indictment prepared by an İstanbul prosecutor seeks forty years jail term for Samanyolu Broadcasting Group General Manager Hidayet Karaca on charges of membership in an organization that conspired against a Turkey-based radical Islamist group called “Taşhiyeciler.”...
by TurkeyPurge | May 4, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A number of TV and radio stations that were closed down by the government in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt on July 15 due to their links to the faith-based Gülen movement have been sold to the pro-government Turkuvaz Media Group without a tender, the...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 25, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Judges Metin Ozcelik and Mustafa Baser who, in Apr 2015, unsuccessfully ruled to release Hidayet Karaca, the head of the now-closed opposition broadcaster Samanyolu TV, were sentenced to 10 years in jail each on accusation that they had abused their judicial power, on...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 9, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
An Education Ministry bureaucrat has suggested that the government might consider removing “Milky Way” phrase from textbooks in order to avoid resemblance with the names of the schools linked to the Gülen movement, which Turkey accuses of masterminding the July 15...