by TurkeyPurge | May 11, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The chief public prosecutors’ office in the western province of İzmir has issued detention warrants for 189 people over suspected links to the Gülen movement, which is accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. The state-run Anadolu...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 14, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish police are waiting at Balıkesir Sevgi Hospital to detain M.A., who just gave birth by cesarean section, over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which is accused by the Turkish government of mounting a botched coup attempt last summer, an opposition deputy...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 6, 2017 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses
Thirteen inmates including journalists Erdoğan Alayumat and Serkan Erdoğan from the Dicle news agency (Dihaber) and Özgürlükçü Demokrasi daily, respectively, both of which were shut down by a government decree, were allegedly tortured on Oct. 2 by some 20-30 guards at...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 12, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Berivan Alta, a reporter from the pro-Kurdish news portal Dihaber, was briefly detained on Thursday due to an outstanding arrest warrant, the Cumhuriyet daily reported. According to the report, Altan was detained during a security check in Mersin’s Mezitli district...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 2, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A Şırnak court arrested French journalist Loup Bureau on charges of aiding and supporting a terrorist organization, pro-Kurdish Dihaber reported on Wednesday. According to the report, Bureau was on his way to the Kurdish region of northern Iraq through the Habur...
Purge-victim Turkish engineer banned from public service until the year 3025
This 80-year-old couple in the 100th day of their arrest on terror charges
Imprisoned Turkish man “dies of heart attack” a day before his release from prison
Imprisoned Kurdish politician dies of heart attack in Turkish prison
Turkish man with 96 percent disability dies of heart attack 10 days short of being released from prison
Wife of purge-victim Turkish businessman sent to prison in Gaziantep
Purge-victim Turkish judge dies of cancer
HDP deputy reports another suspicious death in Turkish prison