by TurkeyPurge | Jul 24, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Calgary-based Turkish-Canadian Davut Hanci was sentenced to 15 years in prison over his links to the Gulen movement, media said Friday. A court in Turkey’s Northwestern province of Trabzon gave Hancı, already under pre-trial detention for nearly 2 years, 15 years of...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 10, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Fethullah Gülen’s cousin Kemalettin Gülen was put behind bars as part of an order by an Istanbul court on Saturday. The cousin Gülen was given a 7.5 years of jail sentence on charges of membership to the Gulen movement and released with an overseas travel ban on March...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 17, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Ali Furkan Yabaneri, a 24-year-old electrical engineering student at Istanbul’s prestigious Koç University, died of an overdose months after his father was jailed as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown. Local media said Yabaneri committed suicide at his...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 22, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A Samsun couple, both judges who were earlier removed from their offices over alleged ties to the Gulen movement, were sentenced to 6 years and 3 months in prison. O.F.K. and his wife F.K. appeared in their final hearing, state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Dec...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 30, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Two Adana lawyers, identified as M.K. and M.A., were sentenced to 9 years in prison each on accusations of membership to a terrorist organization, on Friday. M.K. and M.A. denied accusations and pleaded not guilty during the final hearing on Friday while the court in...