by TurkeyPurge | Aug 19, 2022 | Today in Crackdown
Salih Hezer, a purge-victim engineer from Turkey, has been banned from public service until April 26, 3025, according to Turkish Journalist Sevinç Özarslan. Hezer was fired from his job with a decree issued by the Turkish government in the aftermath of a failed coup...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 3, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Colombia University effectively canceled a panel discussion on Turkey two days before the event, citing “academic standards.” Steven A. Cook, one of the panelists and a senior fellow for Middle East & Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations,...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 16, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Mahmut Birlik, vice president of the Gaziantep branch of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), has been appointed as trustee for 7 companies that were transferred to the Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) due to their owners’ alleged links to the Gülen group,...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 18, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
An indictment prepared by an İstanbul prosecutor seeks a jail term of up to two years for fashion designer Barbaros Şansal on charges of “insulting Turkish nation” with a video he posted on social media on the New Year’s Eve. According to the Doğan News Agency, the...
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Dementia-suffering Kurdish politician released from prison
The head of Turkey’s doctors’ union sent to prison on terror accusations
Turkish police detain 543 people in 59 provinces over alleged Gülen links
Son of purge-victim judge jumps to his death from İstanbul’s Galata Tower
Constitutional court rejects jailed Kurdish youngster’s appeal for release
This Kurdish youngster in 6th year in Silivri prison on coup charges
14 more military cadets set free after 6 years in prison
Turkish gov’t seeks extradition of critical journalist Cevheri Güven
Purge-victim police officer dies after accident at a mining site in Gebze