by TurkeyPurge | Feb 15, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The Interior Ministry has placed members of the Turkish folk music band, Grop Yorum in the list of wanted terrorists. Ali Aracı and İbrahim Gökçek, and Selma and İnan Altun were added to the ministry’s grey-coloured list prepared for people sought for their alleged...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 28, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Deniz Naki, a German football player with Kurdish roots will not return to his Turkey-based team, Amedspor over security concerns, Der Spiegel said Saturday. Naki wants to dissolve his contract with Amedspor and stay in Germany, 28-year-old’s lawyer Stephan Kuhn told...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 7, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
An Ankara court ruled on Thursday to keep pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party’s co-chair (HDP) Selahattin Demirtaş behind bars. During the first hearing of the case, opened on charges of leading a terrorist organization, Demirtaş failed to appear before the court as...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 13, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish court remanded in prison the president of the Progressive Lawyers’ Association (ÇHD), Selçuk Kozağaçlı, on Monday. He was jailed on charges of membership to a terrorist organization. Kozağaçlı is the lawyer for famed Turkish educators Nuriye Gülmen and Semih...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 3, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Faruk Güllü, one of the owners of the leading baklava maker Güllüoğlu Baklava, said he has been under arrest for 15 months simply because a licensed book found at his workplace during a police search. Under arrest as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement,...
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