by TurkeyPurge | Apr 28, 2022 | Today in Crackdown
Çiğdem Mater, a Turkish film producer and journalist, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison on charges of aiding an attempt to overthrow the Turkish government through the Gezi Park anti-government protests in 2013. In addition to Mater and the Turkish court also...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 5, 2022 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish prosecutor is seeking up to five years in prison for imprisoned Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş, former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), over a social media post dating back to on Nov 2013, the Mezopotamya news agency...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 15, 2022 | Today in Crackdown
Mesut Karaboyun, a 32-year-old noncommissioned officer who was fired from his job in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt in 2016, committed suicide on Sunday in Munich, Germany. The purge-victim man had reportedly spent some 20 months in an İzmir prison following...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 24, 2022 | Today in Crackdown
Güven Bozkurt, a purge-victim Turkish teacher, is feared to have drowned in the Maritsa River while trying to flee to Greece. According to a Turkish human rights activist, Güven Bozkurt went missing on January 12 and his last point of contact was Orestias, a small...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 13, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish police have arrested three YouTubers known for conducting street interviews with passersby on daily political developments in Turkey, the Karar daily reported. Mehmet Koyuncu (@KendineMuhabir), Arif Kocabıyık (@ilavetv_) and Turan Kural (@sadevatandasyt) were...
Purge-victim Turkish businessman shares first picture from prison in 6 years
Karabuk court jails 5 female university students on terror charges
Turkish reporter Ayşenur Parıldak set free after spending some 6 years in prison
73-year-old Kurdish man dies of Covid-19 in prison: report
1.5-year-old child joins mother in prison: report
Turkish journalist says Karabük police arrests 14 female university students in midnight raids
6-month pregnant jailed woman released on probation after almost 2 months in prison
Turkish Supreme Court of Appeals upholds 4-year prison time for leading opposition figure
24 former public officials detained in midnight raids for “providing financial support” to families of imprisoned “Gulenists”
6-month pregnant jailed woman hospitalized due to heavy breathing difficulty