by TurkeyPurge | Jul 15, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Istanbul police raided the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) local office in Sancaktepe district and detained at least 18 people on Sunday. At least 18 people including two party executives were detained during the raid, media reported. Police carried out...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 22, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, one of Turkey’s most renowned human rights activists and former president of the Association of Human Rights and Solidarity for Oppressed Peoples (Mazlumder), has been handed down a prison sentence of two-and-a-half years on charges of...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 10, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A Kocaeli engineer, identified by his initials M.K., told the judge in charge that he will stand trial for his decision to sentence the former to nearly 7 years in jail on terror charges, media said Monday. “Dear judge, I didn’t get this sentence. You sentenced...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 7, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Writer and poet Fadıl Öztürk was detained early Friday, according to Artigercek, an online news outlet where he writes weekly columns. At least 6 plainclothes police officers raid Öztürk’s home in Izmir and detained him on charges of making propaganda on behalf of a...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 1, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Mustafa Türk, an 81-year-old Turkish who has been under arrest over a year, was sentenced to 10 years in jail on charges of membership to a terrorist organization. Detained over his alleged ties to the Gulen movement following a police raid at his home in Manisa’s...
Emotional reunion of 9-year-old daughter, disabled father after 20 months in Turkish prison
Dementia-suffering Kurdish politician released from prison
The head of Turkey’s doctors’ union sent to prison on terror accusations
Turkish police detain 543 people in 59 provinces over alleged Gülen links
Son of purge-victim judge jumps to his death from İstanbul’s Galata Tower
Constitutional court rejects jailed Kurdish youngster’s appeal for release
This Kurdish youngster in 6th year in Silivri prison on coup charges
14 more military cadets set free after 6 years in prison
Turkish gov’t seeks extradition of critical journalist Cevheri Güven
Purge-victim police officer dies after accident at a mining site in Gebze