by TurkeyPurge | Jul 26, 2022 | Today in Crackdown
At least nine people who suffer from cancer related complications are being held in Turkish prisons over a variety of trumped-up terror charges, including alleged membership in the Gulen group, which the government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. The...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 27, 2022 | Today in Crackdown
Aslı Ünlü, a six-month pregnant woman from Turkey’s Edirne province, is in the 20th day of her imprisonment over alleged links to Turkey’s Gulen group, accused by the government of masterminding a coup attempt. The group denies any involvement. According to...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 17, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Five years into one of the greatest purges known to history, the Turkish government’s cleansing of the state institutions is continuing with people from all walks of life find themselves being hunted down and taken into custody over trumped-up terrorism charges....
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 9, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Selçuk Türel, a Turkish academic who was fired from his job after a coup attempt in 2016, has been given a prison sentence of ten years over his links to Turkey’s Gülen group, the Bold Medya news portal reported. Türel, an assistant professor at a university in...
by TurkeyPurge | May 3, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s Constitutional Court on Friday said there was no violation of the right to freedom and security during the prosecution of prominent journalists Ahmet Altan and Nazlı Ilıcak, who have been behind bars for more than two years, Turkish media outlets reported....
Emotional reunion of 9-year-old daughter, disabled father after 20 months in Turkish prison
Dementia-suffering Kurdish politician released from prison
The head of Turkey’s doctors’ union sent to prison on terror accusations
Turkish police detain 543 people in 59 provinces over alleged Gülen links
Son of purge-victim judge jumps to his death from İstanbul’s Galata Tower
Constitutional court rejects jailed Kurdish youngster’s appeal for release
This Kurdish youngster in 6th year in Silivri prison on coup charges
14 more military cadets set free after 6 years in prison
Turkish gov’t seeks extradition of critical journalist Cevheri Güven
Purge-victim police officer dies after accident at a mining site in Gebze