by TurkeyPurge | Nov 3, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
An Ankara court has ruled to continue already a-year-long imprisonment of Murat Arslan, the last chairman of Turkey’s Judges and Prosecutors Association (YARSAV) who was awarded with the 2017 Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 9, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
Murat Arslan, the last chairman of Turkey’s Judges and Prosecutors Association (YARSAV) was named as the winner of the 2017 Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize by the Council of Europe (CoE) on Monday. Under arrest since Oct 26, 2016 over his alleged links to the Gulen...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 26, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Former head of the Judges and Prosecutors Association (YARSAV) Murat Arslan, who was detained in Ankara on Oct. 19 as part of an investigation into the faith-based Gülen movement, was referred to a court by the head office of the Ankara public prosecutor and put under...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 23, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
The former president of the Judges and Prosecutors Association (YARSAV) Mustafa Arslan has been missing since he was detained by Turkish police under the post-coup emergency rules on Wednesday. A group of lawyers representing Arslan stated in a petition to the...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 19, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Former head of the Judges and Prosecutors Association (YARSAV) Murat Arslan was detained in Ankara on Wednesday morning as part of an investigation into the faith-based Gülen movement. Arslan was recently dismissed from his post at the Court of Accounts as a result of...
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