by TurkeyPurge | Nov 10, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish pop singer and columnist Atilla Taş was sent back to prison on Friday as a regional appeals court upheld a local court’s ruling to imprison him for three years, one month and 15 days over Gülen links. He was writing daily columns for the Meydan daily, an...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 10, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into Elif Zahide Tohumcu, a 4-year-old Turkish girl from Turkey’s Erzurum province, over her alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which is accused of masterminding the 2016 failed coup attempt. According...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 3, 2018 | Int'l Reactions
Turkish businessman and activist Osman Kavala turns 61 in İstanbul’s notorious Silivri Prison where he has been held in pre-trial detention since November 2017 on terror and coup charges. Artists, academics and activists gathered in various cities around the...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 23, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A court in the Turkish capital of Ankara ruled on Friday to arrest Austrian journalist Max Zirngast, who was detained by police on Sept. 11, for alleged membership in the leftist TKP/Kıvılcım terrorist organization, the Cumhuriyet daily reported. According to the...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 6, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Can Tombul, a Turkish lawyer and a member of the Law Bureau of the Oppressed (EHB) has been put in pre-trial detention “for being a member of a terror organization”. According to a statement released by the Law Bureau of the Oppressed on August 3, 2018, after...
48 public officials, including 21 active high-ranking diplomats, sent to prison over alleged terror links: report
13 women including university students sent to prison over coup, terror charges in Antalya
Purge-victim educators get 10 years in prison on “terror” charges
72-year-old businessman in solitary confinement for months in Ankara Sincan prison
Turkish authorities issue detention warrants for 53 public officials on terror, coup accusations
Imprisoned cancer patient denied release from prison once again
Turkish court jails 15 former public officials for “providing financial support” to families of imprisoned “Gulenists”
Turkish intelligence abducts Gülenists from Africa, Central Asia by paying bribes, says former intel official
17-week pregnant woman sent to Şanlıurfa prison over alleged Gulen links: report
Purge-victim Turkish businessman shares first picture from prison in 6 years