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by TurkeyPurge | May 20, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
59-year-old businessman Sacit Çalık has died in a tragic traffic accident that claimed the lives of 4 others while he was reportedly on his way to visit his relatives imprisoned in an Elazig prison. Çalık’s car collided head-on with a minibus near Erzurum’s Cat...
by TurkeyPurge | May 20, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A total of twelve people including 5 children were detained while they were reportedly on their way to escape to Greek islands in the Aegean Sea. Media reported Sunday that the group was rounded up after Turkey’s coastal guard stopped their boat off the Pigeon Island...
by TurkeyPurge | May 20, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Thirteen lawyers in Turkey’s Samsun prison were sentenced to varying lengths of prison sentence on Thursday. A total of 24 lawyers, under pre-trial detention for 21 months over their ties tohe Gulen movement, appeared before a Samsun court for their final hearing,...
by TurkeyPurge | May 20, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Machines that would once print daily copies of the Zaman newspaper and its affiliates have been put up for sale by the state-run Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF). 2 newspaper printing machines, 2 CTP machines, and 1 packaging line that were seized from the...
by TurkeyPurge | May 20, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A 34-year-old man, identified only with his initials A.K., has been detained during a visit to his relative in prison, in pre-trial detention over ties to the Gulen movement, media said Thursday. It turns out A.K., himself, had an outstanding arrest warrant, issued by...
by TurkeyPurge | May 20, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Twenty-one people in Turkey’s Afyon province were jailed pending trial over their alleged ties to the Gulen movement, media reported on Friday. On May 9, police carried out operations at 28 locations in Afyon in order to detain 36 people suspected of Gulen ties. At...
by TurkeyPurge | May 20, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish court arrested Rozerin Zeri, a human rights activist of Armenian origin, due to her social media posts deemed to be “propaganda on behalf of a terrorist organization.” According to a tweet posted by Acun Karadağ, a history teacher who was fired...
by TurkeyPurge | May 19, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
An Istanbul court on Friday handed down life sentences to 57 air force cadets and aggravated life imprisonment to six others for their alleged role in a failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. The 28th High Criminal Court in...
by TurkeyPurge | May 18, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Oğuz Karakuş, a retired police chief who has been held in pre-trial detention since May 2016, died on Monday following a heart attack in an İzmir prison, several twitter users claimed. The claim has neither been confirmed nor denied by the Turkish authorities. Karakuş...
by TurkeyPurge | May 17, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Pınar Aydınlar, a famous folk singer and a council member of Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), was beaten by guards at İstanbul’s Bakırköy prison after refusing a strip search, according to the Cumhuriyet daily. Aydınlar was arrested on Tuesday due to a final...
