by TurkeyPurge | Mar 18, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish parliament voted on Wednesday to revoke the parliamentarian status of Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a lawmaker from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), due to the recent approval of a prison sentence he was handed down for a tweet he posted in 2016....
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 13, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s parliament passed a bill on Tuesday that will allow the release of tens of thousands of prisoners as part of the country’s ongoing struggle against the COVID-19 epidemic. Political prisoners who are convicted or being held in pre-trial detention over...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 17, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
At least 19 people have so far been detained by Turkish police on charges of “spreading false information” about the COVID-19 pandemic on social media. According to a report by the T24 news portal, police is seeking 73 others on similar charges. The number...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 5, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Alparslan Kuytul, president of the Furkan Foundation and leader of a religious group critical of the Turkish government, was released pending trial on Thursday after spending 22 months in pre-trial detention Kuytul is still facing a 20-year prison sentence on...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 4, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Bosnian police reportedly detained a Turkish citizen over his alleged membership in the Gülen movement, the Bold Medya news website reported. Fatih Keskin, a Turkish educator and the principal of Una-Sana College, an institute operating within the Gülen-affiliated...