by TurkeyPurge | Jan 3, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Halkevleri organization members Ayşegül Başar and Hamit Dışkaya, who were detained on Monday morning over a video in which they call on people to protect secularism against the government and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, were arrested by an İstanbul court on...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 31, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s secularist Cumhuriyet daily Editor-in-Chief Murat Sabuncu and columnist Güray Öz were detained after police raided their residences on early Monday. Police raied Sabuncu and Öz’s houses along with the house of daily’s CEO Akın Atalay and columnist Hikmet...