by TurkeyPurge | Jun 22, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Gaziantep-based public accountant, identified as A.I., was given 18 years of jail sentence during his final court hearing, media said Thursday. In pre-trial detention for severel months now, A.I. was convicted of leading a terror group due to his alleged links to the...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 10, 2018 | Today in Crackdown, Torture
Actor-director Emre Kılınç, detained a few days ago, has been threatened with death in police custody, according his lawyer. Lawyer Nagehan Avçil said her client Kılınç was detained in Istanbul’s Hadimkoy on March 6 and that he was charged with membership to and...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 5, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Former columnist of the now-defunct Zaman columnist Ali Unal was denied a request to be tried without arrest although he has already spent 17 months under arrest pending trial. On Thursday, Unal appeared before an Usak court as part of the first hearing of his case in...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 21, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Abdulkadir Şengün, a professor of dentistry and the former rector of Turkey’s Turgut Özal University, has been sentenced to eight years, one month and 15 days in prison. Under arrest over alleged ties to the faith-based Gülen movement since Aug. 23, 2016, Şengün was...
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