Alevi home in Istanbul marked with racist slur

by TurkeyPurge | Dec 2, 2017 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses, Religious Minorities, Today in Crackdown

The home of an Istanbul family with reported Alevi background was attacked with racist graffiti on its door that read: “Get out, atheist,” on Thursday night. According to Mezopotamya news agency, the walls of the apartment was also marked with crosses and “three...

Turkish PM: We didn’t ask US gov’t for evidence of Sept. 11, why do you ask for it when it comes to July 15 coup attempt?

by TurkeyPurge | Nov 15, 2017 | Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses

Amid reports that Turkey may have offered $15 million to a former adviser of US President Donald Trump to illegally remove Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen to Turkey, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım criticized Washington for not taking steps on Gülen’s...

[VIDEO] Pro-Erdogan columnist to California ice-cream seller: Dogs of Jews, terrorists!

by TurkeyPurge | Nov 6, 2017 | Anti-Gulen, Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses

Vakkas Doğantekin, a pro-government columnist and the president of the California-based Turkish community organization, TURCA, has attacked a Turkish speaking ice-cream seller by calling him “terrorist” and “dogs of jews,” on Saturday....

Turkish teacher bans kids from speaking Kurdish in classroom: deputy

by TurkeyPurge | Oct 25, 2017 | Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses

A Turkish teacher in Turkey’s southeastern Şırnak province has recently imposed a ban on mother language usage in an elementary school classroom, according to pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Aycan Irmez. Irmez issued a parliamentary question to the...

Turkey’s pro-gov’t media now overjoyed with detention of Turkish businessman Kavala

by TurkeyPurge | Oct 21, 2017 | Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses

Turkey’s leading pro-govenment dailies and journalists hang the flags out after prominent human rights activist and businessman Osman Kavala have recently been taken into custody by police “for getting involving in terrorism activities in Turkey.” In its...

Pro-gov’t journalist suggests abduction of Gülen followers in US, Europe

by TurkeyPurge | Oct 20, 2017 | Anti-Gulen, Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown

Journalist Cem Küçük, a staunch supporter of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said following operations in Pakistan and Indonesia, the Turkish intelligence agency would abduct followers of the Gülen movement in the US and Europe. “People who are well known by...