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 | Jan 25, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
An Adana court sentenced the last president of the now-defunct Nizam Lawyers’ Association, identified as S.U., to 9 years in jail on terror charges. S.U., a lawyer who chaired the Adana-based Nizam Lawyers’ Association until it was closed in a post-coup emergency...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 1, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Mustafa Türk, an 81-year-old Turkish who has been under arrest over a year, was sentenced to 10 years in jail on charges of membership to a terrorist organization. Detained over his alleged ties to the Gulen movement following a police raid at his home in Manisa’s...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 12, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Mehmet Güzel, a lawyer and the former president of the Erzurum Bar Association, was sentenced to 13 years in jail over his ties to the Gülen movement, on Oct 10. During the final hearing of a trial against the movement, an Erzurum court handed down 13 years of prison...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 9, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A Kirsehir court handed down 10-year prison term each to seven people who used to work as managers at the student dormitories, closed over their links to the Gulen movement, on Oct 4. During the final hearing of a trial against the movement in the central Anatolian...
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