by TurkeyPurge | Apr 1, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Dentist, identified as A.I.B., has been sentenced to 7.5 years of prison sentence nearly one and a half year after he was detained over NBA player Enes Kanter’s picture taken at the balcony of Istanbul clinic. A.I.B. was first jailed pending trial in October 2016 when...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 5, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A.M.O., a research assistant at Karadeniz Technical University’s medical faculty until he was dismissed with a post-coup emergency decree, has been sentenced to 7 years and 6 months in jail as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement, on Tuesday. A Trabzon...
by TurkeyPurge | May 31, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Former Zaman columnist and academic, Abdülkadir Civan was sentenced to 10 years and 5 months in prison over alleged membership to a terrorist organization, on May 26. Civan wrote columns for both Zaman and its sister publication, English-language Today’s Zaman; and...
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