by TurkeyPurge | Jun 10, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Police teams armed with machine guns raided a house in Adana belonging to a family accused of “giving financial support” to the purge-victims who were either jailed or fired from their jobs over Gülen links. Among the detainees is a woman with a six-month old baby...
by TurkeyPurge | May 2, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
A total of 120 prisoners across Turkey have been diagnosed with COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, according to Turkish Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül announced on Tuesday. “They are all receiving treatment in the hospital,” Gül said. “There are no...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 14, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s Constitutional Court on Monday rejected an appeal to release İlhan İşbilen, a 74-year-old former AKP deputy, from prison, the TR724 reported. İşbilen was sent to prison in 2015 over his alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, accused by the...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 12, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish court has ruled to imprison an amateur comedian on charges of insulting Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey, and the famous mystic Rumi in his shows, according to Turkish media reports. A video posted on social media last week showed comedian...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 5, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish journalist Hakan Aygün was sent to prison on Friday over Twitter posts that “insults” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s call to raise funds to aid victims of the coronavirus epidemic. According to BBC Türkçe, Aygün was jailed for “inciting hatred...
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