by TurkeyPurge | Jul 24, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Calgary-based Turkish-Canadian Davut Hanci was sentenced to 15 years in prison over his links to the Gulen movement, media said Friday. A court in Turkey’s Northwestern province of Trabzon gave Hancı, already under pre-trial detention for nearly 2 years, 15 years of...
by TurkeyPurge | May 21, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
İbrahim Halil Şivgan, the governor of Trabzon’s Arakli district was detained over his alleged links to the Gülen movement, on Monday. State-run Anadolu news agency said Şivgan was taken into custody by Trabzon police on charges of membership to a terror group. Turkish...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 5, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A.M.O., a research assistant at Karadeniz Technical University’s medical faculty until he was dismissed with a post-coup emergency decree, has been sentenced to 7 years and 6 months in jail as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement, on Tuesday. A Trabzon...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 19, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey has detained another man for wearing a ‘hero’ T-shirt on Saturday. According to media, a 20-year-old Trabzon man, identified as A.G., was taken under custody while he was in a crowd watching the scene of a traffic accident in Arakli district where a car crashed...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 20, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
A total of 6 lawyers, among them the president of Trabzon Bar Association Orhan Öngöz, were detained as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the coup attempt, on Tuesday. Police searched the homes and offices...
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