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....
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 25, 2018 | Human Tragedies
Nuran Gelen, a 20-year-old Celal Bayar University student has been held in a prison in Manisa province for almost fourteen months over his alleged links to the Gülen group, which accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. According to a...