by TurkeyPurge | Jul 12, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Almost 50,000 people took to Twitter over the weekend to call on Turkish authorities to release Gültekin Avcı, a former Turkish prosecutor and TV pundit who was sentenced to aggravated life and to an additional 44 years in prison in December 2020. According to the...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 9, 2019 | Hate Crime, Hate Speech, Today in Crackdown
A Turkish insurance company would not provide service to a customer on the basis that he/she is suspected of ties to the Gulen movement, according to social media. The Twitter account @tutsakavukatt shared the screenshot of an error message the customer reportedly...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 2, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s Education Ministry has removed 301,878 books from schools across the country so far and destroyed them as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown on the Gulen movement. In response to a parliamentary question by an opposition deputy, Education Minister...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 2, 2019 | Human Tragedies, Today in Crackdown
Bold Medya has released a video showing the negligence of police officers in the death of Gökhan Açıkkollu, a purged history teacher who died of a heart attack while under detention in 2016. [VIDEO] shows the moments history teacher Gokhan Acikkollu died of heart...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 1, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
The Ankara Bar Association on Thursday released a statement reporting that four Gülen followers who turned up in police custody after being missing since February are not allowed to see any lawyers. According to the statement, both the lawyers tasked by the bar and...