by TurkeyPurge | Nov 16, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
A group of social media users, including pro-government academics in a Clubhouse chat room have agreed on the “necessity” of potential elimination of imprisoned Gülenists through poison laced food. In the chat room, Furkan Bodur, an Erdoganist teaching assistant...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 13, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
A 16-year-old with autism has repeatedly been denied disability pension by the Turkish authorities due to her father’s dismissal from his job with a gov’t decree issued after the coup attempt in July 2016, the Bold news reported. According to the report, Rüveyda...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 13, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Başak Demirtaş, the wife of the former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Selahattin Demirtaş, has been sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison for having provided inaccurate information over a date in a medical report. According to the...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 12, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
An Israeli couple has been placed in pre-trial detention by an Istanbul court for photographing the palace of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. According to the Turkish media, the couple is accused of spying for the Israeli government. The Israeli Times said...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 11, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Cemile Dönmez and Mehmet Dönmez, two Turkish citizens and the parent of an 8 eight-year-old kid with epilepsy, have been in pre-trial detention since August 18, 2021, over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which is accused by the Turkish government of...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 11, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Burçak Serap Topal, a purge-victim social science teacher, has been in prison in Gebze province since August 10 over alleged links to the Gulen group, which the government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. The group denies any involvement. According to...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 9, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Alpaslan Demir, a US-Turkish dual citizen who is the copyright owner of the encrypted communication app ByLock, has been released from prison in Turkey, the Kronos news portal reported. According to the news portal, Demir returned to Turkey from the USA voluntarily on...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 9, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish police have detained at least 22 women in İzmir province over their alleged links to Turkey’s Gulen group, which the government accuses o masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. The group denies involvement. According to a reported by journalist Sevinç...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 8, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Dudu Arduç, a four-month pregnant Turkish woman, has been in the Antalya L Type prison since September 17, 2021, journalist Sevinç Özarslan reported. According to the report, Arduç is accused of having membership in a Gulen group, which the Turkish government accuses...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 6, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
A photo of Orhan İnandı, a Kyrgyz educator who has been in prison in Turkey since early July 2020, surfaced Friday, showing him with a broken arm in a plaster cast on a white background. His wife said in a tweet that he was tortured and his right arm broken in three...
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