by TurkeyPurge | May 10, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A total of 116 media outlets have been closed down with decrees issued by the Turkish government since a coup attempt on July 15, 2016. Last week, main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) İstanbul deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu submitted a parliamentary question to...
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...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 26, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A total of 2,750 members have been expelled from Turkey’s Galatasaray, the disciplinary board of the club announced on Sunday. According to the announcement, majority of the board members voted to revoke the membership of former prosecutor Zekeriya Öz, former...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 8, 2016 | Int'l Reactions
Fears that the Turkish government would capitalize on a state of emergency to silence critics who have nothing to do with a July 15 coup attempt have come true, Emma Sinclair-Webb, Turkey director of the US-based non-profit Human Rights Watch (HRW), has said. In a...
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