by TurkeyPurge | Jun 4, 2021 | Hate Crime, Today in Crackdown
Video footage shows five police officers beating up a woman laying on the ground in İstanbul’s Esenyurt district. The footage posted by Sezgin Tanrıkulu shows an unknown woman is being kicked and punched by officers late on June 3. The officers in the video...
by TurkeyPurge | May 9, 2020 | Hate Crime, Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses
Sevda Noyan, an Islamist TV commentator, said during a live TV interview that she regrets the fact that she failed to kill more people on the night of the July 15 coup attempt in 2016, adding that her family is now fully-prepared and is capable of...
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 | Oct 17, 2019 | Hate Crime, Hate Speech
Ekrem Yaşlı, a 61-year-old Kurdish man, was physically assaulted for speaking Kurdish at a public hospital in Çanakkale province, the pro-Kurdish HDP deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu confirmed. “Some people still ask why there is a Kurdish problem in...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 9, 2019 | Hate Crime, Hate Speech, Today in Crackdown
A Turkish insurance company would not provide service to a customer on the basis that he/she is suspected of ties to the Gulen movement, according to social media. The Twitter account @tutsakavukatt shared the screenshot of an error message the customer reportedly...
by TurkeyPurge | May 12, 2019 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses
Turkish journalist and TV host Yavuz Selim Demirağ was attacked on Friday night by a group of individuals with sticks, the Diken newspaper reported. The columnist, who writes for the government-critical and ultranationalist Yeniçağ daily, was hospitalized for possible...