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...