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by TurkeyPurge | Sep 14, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
At least six people were put in pre-trial detention after being detained during police raids in Istanbul last week. Police raided several locations in Istanbul between Sept 6-7 to round up the suspects. Accused of having ties to the Gulen movement, the arrestees...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 13, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The Hürriyet daily, one of the leading newspapers in Turkey, has parted ways with renowned columnist Taha Akyol. According to a recent tweet posted by Mr. Akyol’s son, Mustafa Akyol, everyone knows why his father was laid off. “Today, Turkey’s largest...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 11, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish officer who had previously developed an algorithm for profiling individuals for ties to the Gülen movement has scrutinized some 810,000 people, including former and active duty military members, their spouses and children, to ferret out some 4,500...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 11, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Max Zirngast, an Austrian journalist and a writer, was detained in Turkey’s capital province of Ankara on Tuesday. Re:volt magazine tweeted that Zirngast and “several others” were arrested in Ankara at around 5 in the morning by anti-terror police in...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 11, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
At least 5 people were intercepted in a restricted military area near Turkey’s Greek border in Edirne province, media reported Tuesday. The detainees include an x-ray technician; a nurse who was dismissed from her job; and a banker who was also removed from job in the...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 11, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Journalist Ufuk Şanlı, who was arrested in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt in Turkey in July 2016 and was handed down a prison sentence of seven years, six months in March of this year, has said he wants Turkish and international press organizations not to...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 11, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish pop singer Mabel Matiz has been subjec to a post-coup investigation for using 1-dollar bills in a 2017 video clip, pro-government Sabah newspaper reported Tuesday. Having danced with 1-dollar bills in his jacket’s pockets in the video, shot for his track “Ya...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 10, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The New York-based Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF) released a new report titled “Death in Custody: Right to Life in Turkish Prisons” expressing concerns over the increasing number of suspicious deaths in custody since an attempted coup on July 15, 2016 in...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 10, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
At least 612,347 people faced investigations on accusations “of founding, leading or being a member of terror groups” in Turkey from 2016 to 2017, according to Justice Ministry data. The number of people being investigated over terror accusations was...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 10, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Celal Afşar, a 86-year-old businessman who has been in pre-trial detention over his alleged ties to the Gulen movement since July, has his wife, a long-term bed patient, passed away. Media reported on Saturday that Feride Afsar died very recently. Mr Afşar was first...
