by TurkeyPurge | May 25, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A Tokat lawyer, identified as G.B., has been detained at a police station where he/she originally came to defend his/her client, under custody over links to the Gulen movement. It turns out that a detention warrant was earlier issued for G.B. as part of the same...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 1, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
At least 15 lawyers, and judges and prosecutors who were earlier removed from their offices as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown were detained on Jan 1. State-run Anadolu news agency said Monday that police carried out operations in several provinces and...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 1, 2018 | Human Tragedies, Today in Crackdown
An Istanbul lawyer, identified with her initials O.E.H., was put in pretrial detention along with her three-month-old baby as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement, media said. According to TR724 online news portal, O.E.H. stopped by the Tokat police...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 4, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Police detained 10 judges, prosecutors and lawyers who were removed from their jobs over their alleged ties to the Gulen movement was detained on Monday. Detention warrants were issued for 10 judicial members at Tokat Public Prosecutor’s Office’s order and the...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 15, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Thirty district governors and candidates for the position have been arrested in Tokat as part of an investigation targeting the Gülen movement, which President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government accuse of being behind a failed...