by TurkeyPurge | Mar 6, 2022 | Today in Crackdown
Four journalists from the now-closed Taraf daily have been sentenced to lengthy prison sentences for “publishing state secrets” in their 2010 reporting on an alleged war plan. Mehmet Baransu, an outspoken critic of the AKP government and the former Taraf...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 16, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Properties belonging to 30 media outlets that the Turkish government seized under post-coup emergency rule have been put up for sale by the state-run Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF). Dunya newspaper reported on Thursday that TMSF listed properties belonging 30...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 4, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
An İstanbul court on Monday ruled to keep in prison former Taraf daily journalist Mehmet Baransu, who was jailed in March 2015 after he revealed an alleged government plan to “eliminate the Gülen movement” based on a secret document he published in 2013, the T24 news...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 24, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Properties belonging to eight of the media outlets that the Turkish government seized under post-coup emergency rule have been put up for sale by the state-run Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) on June 22. In a statement on Thursday, TMSF listed properties...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 23, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
“I am in jail not because I am a criminal. I am in jail because the criminals’ rule of law is in power,” Ahmet Altan, Turkish journalist and novelist who has been under arrest over coup charges since Sept 23, 2016, said during a court appearance on Thursday. Altan...
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