by TurkeyPurge | Jan 14, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Celtics center Enes Kanter, –,a longtime critic of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is kinda-censored in Turkey. Yet, it seems that Turkish video editors should brush up on their final cut skills. Kanter shared a video footage in which he was poorly...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 14, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Ali Tezel, a journalist and social security expert, was briefly detained on Monday due to social media posts about the Gülen movement, accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a failed coup in July 2016, according to Turkish media reports. “I am being...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 14, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
The mother of one of the military cadets who were jailed in the aftermath of a failed military coup in July 2016, is about to start a “March of Justice” from Turkey’s capital of Ankara to İstanbul in protest of the imprisonment of her son and other cadets on terror,...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 14, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish family — mother, father and their 2-year-old son — has been in a prison for months over their alleged links to ties to Turkey’s Gülen group, accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a failed coup in 2016, according to an...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 12, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
An Assyrian priest from the Mor Yakup Church, also known as Church of Saint Jacob in Nisibis, in the southeastern Turkish province of Mardin, was sent to prison on Friday, Turkish media reported. The reason for the arrest of the priest, Sefer (Aho) Bileçen, is not yet...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 12, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish government has imposed at least 381 curfews in the southeastern region of the country between Aug. 16, 2015 and January 1, 2020, according to the Turkish Human Rights Foundation (TİHV). The curfews directly affected almost 1.9 million people in 11...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 11, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
A 28-year-old pregnant woman who reportedly has a high risk of miscarriage, has been sent to prison due to her alleged links to the Gülen group, accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a failed coup in 2016, according to an opposition deputy. The group...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 10, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
There are 108 journalists in Turkey’s prisons, and Turkey is the second biggest jailer of journalists in the world, according to a report drafted by an opposition deputy. Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Utku Çakırözer, a former journalist, drafted the report on...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 10, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish gendarmerie with duty military-type weaponry reportedly raided an Assyrian church in Turkey’s Nusaybin district on Thursday, detaining three Assyrian citizens, the ANF news reported. Among the detainees are Aho Bileçen, the priest of the church, Josef...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 10, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Cafer Tekin İpek, the brother of Turkish businessman Akın İpek was sentenced to 79 years and 8 months in prison, in addition to a fine of TL 250,000, while his mother Melek İpek was given 11 years and 8 months in prison and a fine of TL 104,100. The two members of the...
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