by TurkeyPurge | Mar 28, 2022 | Today in Crackdown
Murat Şen, a law professor from Turkey, has been in prison for over 50 months over links to the Gulen group which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt. The group denies any involvement. According to a tweet by Journalist Sevinç Özarslan, Şen...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 14, 2021 | Int'l Reactions
UN Human Rights Committee calls has called on the Kyrgyz authorities to take all measure to locate and guarantee the physicals and mental integrity of Orhan İnandı, a Kyrgyz citizen of Turkish origin who is feared to have been abducted by Turkey’s National...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 29, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
A total of 18,630 military members have been dismissed from the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) due to alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement since a coup attempt in July 2016, according to a spokesperson from the Defense Ministry, the state-run Anadolu news...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 7, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Nuran Yapalak, a Turkish woman and the mother of a 2-month-old baby has allegedly been held in solitary confinement in a Mersin prison for over a month over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which is accused of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. According to a...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 23, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
The governor’s office of the eastern Turkish province of Batman has announced that three neighborhood the heads (mukhtars) and one village head have been removed from office on terror charges. According to the Bianet, the mukhtars of Çay, Korik and Bağlar...
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