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...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 20, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Ankara police detained 5 journalists following house raids on Friday. Mezopotamya news agency reporters Selman Güzelyüz and Diren Yurtsever, and Jinnews editor Sibel Yükler were rounded up along with Duygu Erol and Habibe Eren, reporters for the latter media outlet....
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 20, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Detention warrants were issued for 102 former owners, executives and employees of Kaynak Holding, which was seized by the government in November 2015 due to its links to the Gülen movement, according to state-run Anadolu news agency. An Istanbul prosecutor reportedly...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 20, 2017 | Anti-Gulen, Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown
Journalist Cem Küçük, a staunch supporter of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said following operations in Pakistan and Indonesia, the Turkish intelligence agency would abduct followers of the Gülen movement in the US and Europe. “People who are well known by...
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by TurkeyPurge | Oct 20, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Pakistani human rights lawyer Asma Jilani Jahangir said the Turkish-origin Kaçmaz family, who was earlier abducted by a group of unknown people in Lahore, was forced back to Turkey even without their passports. A group of people or what some media outlets say...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 20, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The German province of North Rhine-Westphalia’s (NRW) Interior Minister Herbert Reul said Turkish intelligence service (MIT) have been collecting information about the opponents of the government of Turkey in the region. German media said on Thursday that Reul...
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