by TurkeyPurge | May 25, 2019 | Human Tragedies, Today in Crackdown
A jailed woman named Hatice Sahnaz was sent bact to prison a day after she delivery her baby girl at a nearby hospital, media reported Saturday. Arrested on Sept 4, 2018 when she was 3-weeks pregnant, the 28-year-old woman has been behind bars in an Antalya prison...
by TurkeyPurge | May 22, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Zeynep Sipçik, former co-mayor of Mardin’s Dargeçit district, has been sentenced to 13 years in jail. Under arrest since March, 2016, Dipcik was convicted of membership to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), media reported Tuesday. Dipcik was the...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 3, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) leader Selahattin Demirtas was fined TL 15,000 ($5,500) for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Media reported Tuesday that an Ankara ruled that Demirtas insulted Erdogan during a HDP rally in the southern province of...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 23, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Pro-Kurdish Mezopotamya news agency editor Mehmet Ali Ertaş was given a suspended jail sentence of 15 months on terrorism charges on Friday, according to media. A Diyarbakir court convicted Ertaş of “insulting the government” and of “making propaganda on behalf of a...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 9, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Swedish parliamentarian Jonas Sjöstedt said that Turkish police threatened him with arrest in Ankara, where he attempted to monitor the trial of jailed pro-Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas on Thursday. The chairman of the Sweden’s Left Party said he was...
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Kurdish politician sentenced to 20 months in prison for spreading “terrorist propaganda”
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Detention warrants issued for 113 people over alleged Gülen links: report
Visually impaired lawyer in prison for 275 days over Gulen links: report
Purge-victim disabled army veteran is in his 240th day of imprisonment on terror charges:
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One-armed man held in İzmir prison for 5 years over Gulen links: report