by TurkeyPurge | Oct 25, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
At least 22,000 inmates are forced to sleep on the floor as the prison population has exceeded 229,000 for the first time in Turkey’s history, the Haberturk news website reported on Tuesday. According to the report, based on figures provided by the Justice Ministry,...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 24, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Ayşegül Çağatay, Ebru Timtik, Didem Ünsal and Naim Eminoğlu, lawyers representing two imprisoned hunger strikers, Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, were detained on Thursday as they went to apply to a state of emergency (OHAL) commission on behalf of their clients....
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 7, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
At least 25 individuals, including high-ranking military officers, were detained as part of two separate investigations into the Gulen movement, which the government accuses of being behind the July 15 coup attempt. According to state-run Anadolu news agency,...
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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