by TurkeyPurge | Mar 18, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Inmates and arrestees at state prisons in Edirne and Balıkesir provinces were quarantined on Tuesday due to possible link to COVID-19 pandemic, the Boldmedya newsportal reported. Turkey has a total of 384 prisons. Based on figures provided by the Justice Ministry,...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 18, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Mustafa Ulaşlı, a Turkish academic with a PhD thesis on Coronavirus disease, has called on Turkish authorities to reinstate him to his job as part of efforts to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus in the country. “I’m probably the only person with a...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 17, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey has a total of 384 prisons. Based on figures provided by the Justice Ministry, 229,790 people are in prisons with a total capacity of 207,339. Only 141,802 out of the 229,790 have been convicted of a crime. Another report last year stated that the total prison...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 17, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Mubariz Mansimov Gurbanoğlu, a prominent Turkish-Azeri businessman, was detained by İstanbul police on Sunday as part of an investigation into the Gülen group. According to the Hürriyet newspaper, the financial crimes unit of the İstanbul police raided...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 17, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
At least 19 people have so far been detained by Turkish police on charges of “spreading false information” about the COVID-19 pandemic on social media. According to a report by the T24 news portal, police is seeking 73 others on similar charges. The number...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 17, 2020 | Hate Crime, Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses
Nedim Şener, a pro-government columnist, said during a live interview that Gülenists are worse than the COVID-19 outbreak, which has recently been declared a global pandemic by World Health Organization (WHO). “Coronovirus is a disease that may be dealth with,...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 16, 2020 | Human Tragedies
Fatma Aşkın, a breast cancer patient who was arrested on Feb.14 in the southeastern Turkish province of Gaziantep due to her alleged links to the Gülen movement, has experienced a spread of the disease during her one-month stay in prison and has been diagnosed with...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 12, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish businessman who has been held in a prison for over four years over Gulen links, was stabbed on Wednesday by an inmate seven times, Turkish media reported. According to the Gulen-friendly TR724 news portal, the victim, Hazım Sesli, was stabbed by an inmate...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
At least 20 of eighty university students who were detained by Ankara police last week, were put in pre-trial detention on Wednesday over alleged links to Gulen group. According to the Bold news, among the arrestees is the son of Ali Özer, a 48-year-old medical doctor...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 10, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Albanian police have reportedly detained a Turkish asylum seeker, Selami Şimşek, in order to deport him upon a request by the Turkish government over his alleged links to Turkey’ Gülen group. According to Ceren Yurt, a Turkish journalist and a human rights activist,...
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