by TurkeyPurge | Mar 23, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Detention warrants were issued for 18 engineers previously working at the government-owner defence company, HAVELSAN on Friday. Anadolu news agency reported that the engineers are accused of membership to the Gulen movement. Eight of them were caught at the time of...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 22, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Ayşenur Arslan, a prominent journalist affiliated with the leftist Halk TV, has been detained in Eskişehir province as part of an investigation carried out by the Ankara 40th penal court of first instance. According to the halktv news portal, Arslan was detained after...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 22, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Friday ordered the detention of at least 144 independent lawyers as part of a post-coup crackdown targeting followers of the Gülen movement, Reuters reported. Gulen movement is accused by the Turkish government of...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 22, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Two young men were taken into custody in the eastern province of Tunceli on Thursday for refusing to shake hands with the trustee who replaced a democratically elected mayor in the province, the Arti Gerçek news website reported. Tunceli Governor Tuncay Sonel, who was...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 21, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
A deputy from the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has been given a prison sentence of 20 months on charges of violating a Turkish law on meetings and demonstrations, the Diken news website reported on Wednesday. Ayşe Sürücü was given the sentence by a high...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 21, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s Ministry of Interior Affairs on Thursday dismissed a local mayor from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) after he was convicted of “insulting” the Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan Hüseyin Sarı, the mayor of the Erdek district of...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 21, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
The mother of one of the military cadets who were jailed on coup charges in the aftermath of a failed military coup in July 2016 has said her son and the other jailed cadets would be killed in prison. Melek Çetinkaya, the mother of Furkan Çetinkaya, one of the cadets...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 20, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Fethullah Gulen’s brother Salih Gulen died at an apartment in Istanbul where he was hiding from the Turkish government’s post-coup witch-hunt. Media reported Wednesday that Salih Gulen was hiding at this apartment due to an arrest warrant,issued on charges...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 20, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Two journalists from pro-Kurdish media organizations Mezopotamya news agency and Jinnews were briefly detained in Mardin on Wednesday. Media reported that Ahmet Kanbal from Mezopotamya and Rojda Aydin from Jinnews were taken into custody while they were in front of...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 20, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish lawyer Selçuk Kozağaçlı, former president of the now-closed Progressive Lawyers’ Association (ÇHD) who has been behind bars since November 2017 on terrorism charges, was handed down a sentence of 11 years, three months on Wednesday. The İstanbul 37th High...
