by TurkeyPurge | Feb 27, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
A former top judge who was jailed as part of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s post-coup crackdown has been sentenced to 13 years and 6 months in prison. Former Supreme Court of Appeals member Oktay Acu was convicted of membership to the Gulen movement, a broadened...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 25, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
A former top judge who was jailed as part of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s post-coup crackdown has been sentenced to 10 years, 3 months and 22 days in prison. Former Supreme Court of Appeals member Mustafa Akkus was convicted of membership to the Gulen movement, a...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 16, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has ruled that money deposits to now-defunct Bank Asya may be considered as evidence of membership to the Gulen movement, which the government sees as terror group. A former teacher, identified as U.K., who was earlier dismissed from...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 23, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The Supreme Court of Appeals President Ismail Rustu Cirit said there are 6.9 million people who are considered as suspects in judicial investigations according to 2016 data. “According to judicial record statistics in 2016, there are nearly 6.9 million suspects in our...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 29, 2017 | Human Tragedies
Buket Erdoğan, the daughter of the recently-deceased, former Supreme Court of Appeals member Mustafa Erdoğan said her lecturers as well as classmates would pretend not to see her at the university until her father passed away last week. Imprisoned as part of the...
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