by TurkeyPurge | Dec 12, 2019 | Int'l Reactions
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has listed Turkey as the second worst jailer of journalists in its annual report for the year 2019. The CPJ’s report, released on Wednesday, said this year’s census marks the first time in four years that...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 13, 2019 | Human Tragedies
Emine Sivri Aşkın and Cengiz Aşkın, two Turkish citizens and the parent of two children aged 5 and 10, have been held in pre-trial detention for over three months over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which is accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 24, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish prosecutors has demanded an aggravated life sentence for the former co-mayor of Nusaybin in southeastern Turkey on charges of terrorism. Sara Kaya, a Kurdish mayor who was detained in a house raid on Jan. 13, 2017 and subsequently arrested, testified at a...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 25, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
An indictment prepared by an Ankara prosecutor seeks 15 years years sentence for Ahmet Böken, former editor in chief of state-run TRT News, over alleged link to Turkey’s Gülen group, which is accused by the Turkish gov’t of masterminding a coup attempt in...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 18, 2017 | Human Tragedies
Tuba Kaya, a 27-year-old reporter from the now-closed Zaman daily, was arrested on Sept. 19 after her ex-husband lodged a complaint claiming that she was a member of Turkey’s Gülen group, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15,...