by TurkeyPurge | Jun 2, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish composer Erdal Guney was sentenced to nearly 12 months in prison for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a 2014 single. Guney was given 11 months and 20 days in prison for insulting the President in his song, titled Babacigim [Daddy], Birgun daily...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 7, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A tea house in Turkey’s eastern province of Erzurum was banned due to Kurdish-language songs played in the café, according to media. Mezopotamya news agency reported Tuesday that a tea house in Erzurum’s Karaçoban district was raided by police and military officers...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 16, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
A man who turned poems written by Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen into songs and released an album including those songs has been detained in the southern province of Antalya for his alleged use of a smart phone application known as ByLock. The man, identified...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 5, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Columnist Bayram Zilan from the pro-government Milat daily argued on Wednesday that Turkey’s iconic pop singer Tarkan’s newest song “Cuppa” could have been composed for the July 15 coup attempt, saying that the song’s name would have been changed from “Cuppa” to...
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