by TurkeyPurge | Feb 27, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Ahmet Keser, a presenter for the pro-government Akit TV station, on Tuesday reacted to news stories that Turkey is killing civilians in the Afrin region of Syria, saying if they were to kill civilians they would start with people critical of the government living in...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 3, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Suay Karaman, an academic at Ankara-based Gazi University and the general secretary of the Association of Academic Staff (TÜMÖD), was sentenced to 11 months and 20 days in prison, for his alleged insult to the President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on Friday. An İzmir court...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 22, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
A huge cleansing of Turkey’s state and other institutions is continuing as people from all walks of life find themselves being hunted down and taken into custody. At least 125 people were arrested, while 221 others were detained over the past 3 days, according to...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 23, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
A niece and a nephew of the Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen has joined the ranks of the cleric’s other relatives who were imprisoned as part of the government’s post-coup witch hunt. H.G. and B.G. was detained in İzmir for using ByLock mobile app, which Turkish...
Turkish appeals court upholds 9-year jail sentence for cancer patient
Parents of imprisoned military cadet die in car crash: report
Wife of Kyrgyz educator continues to calls for help on the 10th day of disappearance of husband
Father of imprisoned military cadet dies of heart attack following visit to son in prison
Turkish police interrogates actor for causing an increase in US Dollar rates via Twitter posts
Purge-victim educator denied release from prison once again
Turkey’s Bishkek embassy locks Twitter account amid accusations of kidnapping Kyrgyz-Turkish educator
Math teacher with 60 percent disability rating sent to prison over Gulen links: report
72-year-old man denied bail despite suffering from cardiac dysfunction, COVID-19 symptoms in prison: report
Carleton PhD candidate held in Turkish prison for 258 days on terror charges: report