by TurkeyPurge | Sep 27, 2016 | Today in Crackdown, Uncategorized
A total of 106 police officers and seven academics were detained in Çorum and Trabzon provinces on Tuesday over alleged links to the Gülen movement, the Doğan news agency has reported. Fifty police officers were detained, and arrest warrants were issued for another 56...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 27, 2016 | Human Tragedies
In custody for about two months, İbrahim Günenç, a member of Turkey’s Council of State, has said he hadn’t seen another human being for weeks until former Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Hüseyin Aygün recently visited him. Detained as part of an investigation...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 25, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Former European parliamentarian and journalist Joost Lagendijk tweeted that he was denied entry to Turkey on Sunday on the grounds that he needed to obtain a “special visa” from the Turkish Embassy in the Netherlands. “Turkish authorities stopped me on my return...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 5, 2016 | Hate Crime
Leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said on Monday that it is not right to try to jail all government critics by capitalizing on government decrees that have the power of law and the emergency rule that was declared...
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