by TurkeyPurge | May 25, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish journalist was attacked, the fourth in the last two weeks, in Adana province, according to the Bianet news website, after he said he had received threatening messages by phone. Hakan Denizli, owner of the local Egemen daily in Adana, was shot in the foot by...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 27, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Pro-Kurdish Mezopotamya news agency reporter Lezgin Akdeniz was sentenced to one year and 3 months in jail on charge of terrorist propaganda. Media reported that Akdeniz was convicted of the above-mentioned charge and was given 15 months of sentence. The court, later,...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 5, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Former columnist of the now-defunct Zaman columnist Ali Unal was denied a request to be tried without arrest although he has already spent 17 months under arrest pending trial. On Thursday, Unal appeared before an Usak court as part of the first hearing of his case in...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 21, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The National Education Directorate in Turkey’s eastern province of Diyarbakır has sent an internal correspondence to all schools across the city, requesting from municipals the list of teachers, students and personnel who was absent with or without permission on Mar....
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