by TurkeyPurge | May 27, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
At least 20 people were detained as part of a Denizli-based investigation into the Gulen movement, media reported Monday. Police carried out raids at different locations in Denizli, Istanbul, Ankara, Bursa, Aydın, Van, Uşak and Bayburt provinces and detained the...
by TurkeyPurge | May 16, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
A former top judge who was jailed as part of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s post-coup crackdown has been sentenced to 8 years and 9 months in prison. Former Supreme Court of Appeals member Halit Kivril was convicted of membership to the Gulen movement, a broadened...
by TurkeyPurge | May 16, 2019 | Int'l Reactions, Today in Crackdown
The number of people who were detained while trying to escape from Turkey to Greece in the face of a government crackdown against the suspected followers of the Gulen movement has reached to 546. Anadolu news agency reported that 546 suspected Gulenists were detained...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 24, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
A nurse was detained near Turkey-Greece border where he was reportedly on his way to escape the country as asylum seeker. Media reported Apr 24 that police carried out a search on a parked car nearby a highway in Edirne’s Kesan district upon a complained and...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 18, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
8 women were detained over their alleged ties to the Gulen movement in Turkey’s Aksaray, media reported Thursday. Detention warrants were issued for 15 women on accusation of being secretive leaders of the followers of the Gulen movement within police academy. 8...