by TurkeyPurge | Aug 23, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish colonel who was hailed as a hero for standing up to a failed coup attempt in 2016 was dismissed from the Turkish Armed Forces under the last government decree issued under a state of emergency before it was lifted in July, Odatv columnist Müyesser Yıldız...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 6, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The German Foreign Ministry has announced that 54 German citizen were denied entry to Turkish territory in the first seven months of the year, Deutsche Welle Turkish service reported on Monday. The figure was 95 for all of last year, according to the ministry’s answer...
by TurkeyPurge | May 10, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The İzmir Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday issued detention warrants for 91 air force officers of varying ranks and five people allegedly linked to them as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported....
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 1, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The state-run Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) has banned the broadcasting of a total of 208 songs, 142 Turkish and 66 Kurdish, on its 14 TV stations for reasons that were not made clear to the public. According to the Hürriyet daily, Some of these songs...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 21, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Detention warrants have been issued for at least 110 people on accusations that they use a smart phone application known as ByLock, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Wednesday. According to the report, as of late Wednesday, 30 of 59 suspects sought by the...