by TurkeyPurge | Oct 22, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
At least 7 people were detained for having raised the amount of the money held at their Bank Asya accounts after late 2013, state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Saturday. Police in Iğdır, Muş, İstanbul, Rize, Erzurum and Düzce provinces detained 7 suspects over...
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by TurkeyPurge | Oct 22, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Former judges Bülent Kınay and Fatih Mehmet Uslu were detained by Turkish security forces while trying to flee to Greece from Turkey’s Edirne province on Saturday. According to the state-run Anadolu news agency, Kınay and Uslu were detained by Edirne gendarmes while...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 21, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
İhsan Eliaçık, a Turkish theologian who is known for his critical stance against Turkish government and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was assulted by a group of Islamist thugs at Kayseri Book Fair, Turkish media reported on Saturday. According to the reports, after...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 21, 2017 | Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses
Turkey’s leading pro-govenment dailies and journalists hang the flags out after prominent human rights activist and businessman Osman Kavala have recently been taken into custody by police “for getting involving in terrorism activities in Turkey.” In its...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 21, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The Gaziantep Regional Court of Justice has approved a 55 month, 10 day prison sentence for Ferhat Encü, one of 10 jailed deputies from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Habertürk reported on Thursday. The Şırnak 2nd High Criminal Court on June 9 had...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
An Ankara court on Friday ruled for the release of Semih Özakça and continued the pretrial detention of Nuriye Gülmen, who went on a hunger strike in May after they were fired from their jobs by a government decree following a failed coup last year. According to the...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 20, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies (ORSAM) Director Şaban Kardaş was detained at his home in Ankara on Friday as part of an investigation in which prominent human rights activist and businessman Osman Kavala was arrested on Thursday. According to the...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 20, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Kurdish Writer and journalist Vedat Çetin was detained in Diyarbakır on Friday as part of an investigation into the pro-Kurdish Democratic Peoples’ Congress (DTK). Çetin was detained after police raided his house in Diyarbakır early on Friday. He was taken to the...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 20, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Journalist Tuğrul Eryılmaz was given a suspended jail sentence of 15 months and TL 6,000 in fine over his participation in a solidarity campaign with the pro-Kurdish Ozgur Gundem newspaper. The sentence was suspended, according to the media. The Özgür Gündem daily was...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 20, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
At least seven people were detained while they were on their way to escape Turkey to Greece, Dogan news agency reported on Friday. Gendarmerie rounded up seven suspects near Turkey’s Greek border in Edirne province. While 5 of them were taken to a nearest police...
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