by TurkeyPurge | May 27, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Internationally acclaimed Turkish author and human right activist, Aslı Erdoğan said she sees parallels between today’s Turkey and the Germany during Nazi rule, adding that the country was turned into a concentration camp in the face of post-coup arrest waves....
by TurkeyPurge | May 27, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Figen Yüksekdağ, former co-chairperson of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has been given a prison sentence of 14 months on charges of insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. According to the Cumhuriyet daily, the decision was made by the...
by TurkeyPurge | May 27, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Ahmet Yılmaz, a muhtar, or neighborhood administrator who allegedly intervened in Sala prayers recited by a local imam in order to encourage people into streets during the night of July 15, 2016 coup attempt, has been arrested by a Turkish court. Sala is a religious...
by TurkeyPurge | May 26, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
76-year-old Abdullah Nefes and 73-year-old Selah Özakın, the two veteran Turkish poets are set to kick off a hunger strike on May 29, protesting the recent arrests of Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakaça, two dismissed educators who were imprisoned on the 76th day of their...
by TurkeyPurge | May 26, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
E.T. and his brother-in-law E.K., the two Sivas men who allegedly intervened in Sala prayers recited by a local imam in order to encourage people into streets during the night of July 15, 2016 coup attempt, were sentenced to 13.5 years in jail each on Friday. Sala is...
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by TurkeyPurge | May 26, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Mediha Olgun, opposition Sözcü daily’s online editor and Gökmen Ulu, the newspaper’s Izmir reporter were arrested over their alleged links to the Gülen movement. The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office issued detention warrants last week for Sözcü’s license...
by TurkeyPurge | May 26, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Socialist Solidarity magazine’s managing editor and a former member of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) party council Sezgin Kartal was arrested on Thursday due to an article he wrote for the magazine’s April 2016 issue. Kartal was detained at the...
by TurkeyPurge | May 26, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
Two rapporteurs for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Wednesday expressed concern at the apparent lack of an effective domestic remedy for persons who have been dismissed from their jobs, arrested or detained by the Turkish authorities....
by TurkeyPurge | May 26, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
At least 43 more companies were seized over coup charges between Apr 1 and May 24, bringing the total number of companies under the state-run Savings Deposit Insurance Fund’s (TMSF) control to 922. The companies in question were targeted as part of a sweeping state...
by TurkeyPurge | May 26, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A total of 11 people, among them doctors, academics and teachers, were detained as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement in Rize province, on Friday. According to state-run Anadolu news agency, the detainees are accused of having used ByLock, a mobile...
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