by TurkeyPurge | Aug 5, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
I.K., a former deputy police chief in Gaziantep’s Sehitkamil district who was dismissed in the government’s post-coup crackdown, was detained when he visited a local State of Emergency (OHAL) commission in Sivas to reclaim his rights. The government earlier...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 11, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Fatih Tezcan, a pro-government public speaker and columnist, said in a video message posted on social media on Friday that people should gather in front of Silivri Prison, which mainly hosts people jailed over links to the Gülen movement, and set it on fire, similar...
by editor | Mar 19, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A total of ten teachers who were claimed to be using ByLock, a smart phone messaging application, were arrested as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, pro-gov’t daily Karar reported on Sunday. Turkish prosecutors claim that Bylock is the top...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 6, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s paranoia over the Gülen movement has reached new heights with the government banning mathematics textbooks due to questions involving the initials of Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen. “A textbook was banned just because it features Gülen’s initials in a...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 9, 2016 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses
Turkey’s Sivas University pulled off the shelf of its libraries all copies of the books written by Fethullah Gülen and his alleged supporters and destroyed them via a shredder. The US-based Islamic scholar Gülen is accused by the Turkish government of masterminding...
Turkish reporter Ayşenur Parıldak set free after spending some 6 years in prison
73-year-old Kurdish man dies of Covid-19 in prison: report
1.5-year-old child joins mother in prison: report
Turkish journalist says Karabük police arrests 14 female university students in midnight raids
6-month pregnant jailed woman released on probation after almost 2 months in prison
Turkish Supreme Court of Appeals upholds 4-year prison time for leading opposition figure
24 former public officials detained in midnight raids for “providing financial support” to families of imprisoned “Gulenists”
6-month pregnant jailed woman hospitalized due to heavy breathing difficulty
Turkish court arrests military cadet for third time in 6 months
Retired engineer with Parkinson’s disease in prison for almost a year over coup, terror charges