by TurkeyPurge | May 22, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
An Ankara court has arrested Kerim Çoraklık, head of the communications team of the opposition İYİ (Good) Party and an advisor to the party’s leader, Meral Akşener, on charges of “disseminating the propaganda on behalf of a terrorist organization.”...
by TurkeyPurge | May 22, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
An Ankara high criminal court has rejected a request for the release of pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtaş from jail in the run-up to the June 24 presidential election, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported on...
by TurkeyPurge | May 22, 2018 | Human Tragedies
A 58-year-old Turkish man, identified as Mustafa A., has died of a heart attack just two days after his son, a teacher of religious culture who was jailed as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown, had his court hearing postponed, according to family members....
by TurkeyPurge | May 22, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Kerim Çoraklık, the alleged head of the communications team of the opposition İYİ (Good) Party and an advisor to the party’s leader, Meral Akşener, who was detained on charges of disseminating the propaganda of the Gülen movement earlier this month, was arrested on...
by TurkeyPurge | May 21, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
İbrahim Halil Şivgan, the governor of Trabzon’s Arakli district was detained over his alleged links to the Gülen movement, on Monday. State-run Anadolu news agency said Şivgan was taken into custody by Trabzon police on charges of membership to a terror group. Turkish...
by TurkeyPurge | May 21, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Journalist Kazım Canlan, the Ankara editor of the Cihan news agency before it was shut down, has been sentenced to 7.5 years in jail. In pre-trial detention in an Ankara prison on charges of membership to a terror group for months now, Canlan appeared before the court...
by TurkeyPurge | May 21, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
İsa Kara, a 54-year-old teacher who was fired from his job after a coup attempt in July 2016, has been held in a Manisa prison since October 2016 on coup charges even though he is partly paralyzed and suffers from a serious heart problem as well as other ailments....
by TurkeyPurge | May 21, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Eren Erdem was not allowed to leave Turkey on Monday as he had been indicted by an Istanbul court, the T24 news website reported. Erdem was not included on his party’s nomination list for the June 24 general...
by TurkeyPurge | May 21, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
An İzmir court on Monday handed down aggravated life sentences to 104 of 137 suspects for their alleged role in a failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. On Friday an Istanbul court sentenced 57 air force cadets to life and...
by TurkeyPurge | May 21, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
At least 527 people were detained as part of investigations into the Gülen movement over the past week, according to government data. In a written statement on Monday, the Interior Ministry said 967 people were rounded up in operations targeting the Gülen movement...
