by TurkeyPurge | Jan 5, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Journalists Cem Küçük and Fuat Uğur, staunch supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, called on the government to seize all assets of people linked to the Gülen movement to pay off a fine the US Treasury is expected to impose on Turkish state lender...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 19, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Fevzi Yazıcı, the jailed art director of the now-closed-down Zaman daily, was threatened at police headquarters to admit having carried a letter that was submitted to a New York court allegedly written by Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen ordering judges in...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 4, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Three employees of Turkish-Iranian gold trader Reza Zarrab were detained as part of the Turkish government’s latest response to the businessman’s guilty plea in a US trial that implicated President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s close circle. Zarrab’s employees Sinem Arslan,...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 30, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Former speechwriter of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and current ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) deputy Aydın Ünal on Monday threatened Gülen movement people in Turkey, saying tougher days lie ahead as a result of a case against Reza Zarrab, a...