by TurkeyPurge | Aug 10, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Former police chief Anadolu Atayun, under arrest for more than 3 years now over his links to the Gulen movement, has been sentenced to 40 years plus 6 months in prison. Put in pre-trial detention in May 2015 , the former head of the Konya police’s anti-smuggling and...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 4, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Two daughters of Yurt Atayün, a former police chief who was jailed in the summer of 2014 for taking part in a corruption investigation, have raised concerns about the safety of their father in prison and called on the relevant authorities to take action to maintain...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 28, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Jailed police officers Yurt Atayün and Ömer Köse were put in solitary confinement, according to their lawyer Ömer Turanlı. In a series of tweets on Jan 24, Turanli said Atayün and Köse were taken from Istanbul’s Silivri prison to Edirne and Tekirdag prisons,...
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