by TurkeyPurge | Apr 28, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Halime Gülsu, a teacher who was arrested on Feb. 20, 2018 for alleged links to the Turkey’s Gülen group, died on Saturday in a Mersin prison due to deprivation of the medication she took for lupus erythematosus. According to main opposition Republican...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 28, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish police has confirmed to the Hürriyet daily that Turkish businessman Mustafa Ceyhan who was kidnapped on April 28 by a group of eight people in front of a courthouse in Baku, was flown to Turkey early on April 29. Upon his forcefull return to Turkey,...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 24, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The Maarif Foundation, which was established by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government in 2016, has taken over 76 schools linked to the Gülen movement in 10 countries, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Tuesday. According to the report,...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 21, 2018 | Human Tragedies
Mehmet Yavaş, a retired teacher has been held in a prison in Denizli province for almost nineteen months over his alleged links to the Gülen group, which accused of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. According to a social media user named Kaya Tunca, Yavaş is 70...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 19, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The Turkish Parliament has stripped pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputies Osman Baydemir and Selma Irmak of their parliamentary status, the Cumhuriyet daily reported. The decision was made due to the approval by an appeals court of sentences the two...
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