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 | Feb 9, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Law professor Murat Sen has been detained as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement in Kayseri, state-run Anadolu news agency said Thursday. The dean of the Meliksah University’s law faculty until it was closed by the government over Gulen links in 2016, Sen...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 17, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Serkan Gölge, a 36-year-old physicist and research scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the US, has been held under solitary confinement in Turkey over coup charges. Dual citizen of the US and Turkey, Gölge was detained as part of...