by TurkeyPurge | Apr 26, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Mustafa Ceyhan, a Turkish businessman allegedly affiliated with Turkey’s Gülen group, was reportedly kidnapped by a group of eight people in front of a courthouse in Baku, Azerbaijan, according a Twitter account believed to be controlled by Mr. Ceyhan’s...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 26, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The Cumhuriyet daily’s chief executive officer, Akın Atalay, who was released from pretrial detention last night, said he would be ashamed to be happy while many people are still in jail, Cumhuriyet reported. “I’ll go about my business within the boundaries of the...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 26, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A video shared by the Yarın news portal shows the moment a group of university students being beaten by security staff at Ankara’s Gazi University campus. Students were reportedly attacked while they were protesting a recent government proposal to establish 20...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 25, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish court has sentenced a group of Cumhuriyet journalists and employees to jail for alleged links to a group the Turkish government blames for a failed coup attempt in July 2016. According to the Birgün daily, 6 of them were convicted of aiding and abetting an...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 25, 2018 | Int'l Reactions
Turkey, which has jailed more than 250 journalists and media workers, is ranked 157th among 180 countries in the 2018 World Press Freedom Index released on Wednesday by Reporters Without Borders (RSF). As the world’s biggest prison for professional journalists, Turkey...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 25, 2018 | Human Tragedies, Today in Crackdown
An Elazig teacher identified as Cemal Gürer has died of cancer, according to online news portal Akfifhaber. Jailed over his links to the Gulen movement, Gürer was in pre-trial detention for some time, Aktifhaber said Wednesday. “His cancer problem relapsed while in...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 25, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Journalist Ismail Küçükkaya and lawyer Fidel Okan were sentenced to 1 year 4 months and 20 days in jail each for implying that the family issues minister Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya’s husband had used the controversial mobile app, ByLock. An Istanbul prosecutor earlier...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 25, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
At least 16 people were detained in Turkey’s western province of Mugla after they failed to escape to Greece, media reported on Apr 24. The group attempted to escape to the Greek island of Kos in a speed boat that was chased by Turkish coast guards off Mugla shores...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 25, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A 25-year-old police officer who was earlier suspended from his job in Turkey’s post-coup crackdown has shot himself dead 2 months after he was reinstated to the office. Erdem Gezer, a father of one from the eastern province of Bitlis, was temporarily removed from...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 24, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Nazlı Mert, a Turkish woman with a 10-month old baby, has been put in pre-trial over alleged links to the Gülen group, which is accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. Mert was initially detained by police on June 3, 2017, days after...
