by TurkeyPurge | Dec 20, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Detention warrants have been issued for six family members of Hüseyin Korkmaz, a former İstanbul police officer who testified at the New York trial of Mehmet Hakan Atilla, an executive of Turkey’s state-owned Halkbank accused of helping launder money for Iran,...
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 7, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey has seized a private jet and a luxury yacht owned by Turkish-Iranian gold trader Reza Zarrab as part of the government’s latest response to the businessman’s guilty plea in a US trial that implicated President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s close circle. Istanbul...
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 18, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The Istanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation into the Acting US Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) Joon H. Kim, former SDNY Attorney Preet Bharara, and some others who are involved in the prosecution of the Turkish Iranian...