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 9, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Ankara governor has banned an anti-corruption panel discussion by a communist party member, the day before it started. The panel, “Zarrab Trial, Off-Shore Documents and Corruptions: What Should The Public Do?” scheduled to be held by Turkey’s Communist Party (TKP)...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 6, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The assets of former main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Aykan Erdemir were seized by the Turkish government, the Hürriyet daily reported on Wednesday. The decision was made on the grounds that he allegedly provided “fake reports” as evidence...
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,...
Isparta man with Parkinson’s disease briefly detained over alleged Gulen links
Stage 2 cancer patient sent to prison over Gulen links: report
Purge-victim İzmir man suffers facial paralysis in solitary confinement: report
Turkish court arrests Samsun man for “insulting” Ataturk
Missing purge-victim bureaucrat “found” in Ankara prison: daughter
Purge-victim woman dies of Covid-19: report
A year ago today: Purge-victim police officer dies of Covid-19 in prison
5-year old kid with down syndrome joins mother in prison: report
At least 106 people died in Turkish prisons since July 2016: report
Purge-victim judge becomes watermelon vendor to make a living