by TurkeyPurge | May 9, 2019 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses
A graphic video that has recently emerged on social media purportedly shows a group of soldiers with uniforms bearing Turkish flag beating a Kurdish villager in Afrin, a town in northern Syria. Turkey Purge cannot authenticate the newly surfaced video, which was...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 21, 2019 | Hate Crime
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has been attacked by a group of people at the funeral of 26-year-old Turkish infantryman who was killed on Friday during an operation against Kurdish militants on Turkey’s border...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 16, 2019 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses
Sertuğ Sürenoğlu, a Turkish citizen and an İstanbul-based lawyer, was beaten by the bodyguards of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan after he objected to the president’s security detail holding up traffic, the Sözcü daily reported. Erdoğan on Sunday attended the wedding...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 5, 2019 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses
A video footage that has recently been released by ilerihaber.org news portal purportedly shows a pro-government mob attacking an opposition mayor candidate, Kamuran Karaca, outside of the election board building in Adana’s Yüreğir district. Karaca was nominated...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 16, 2019 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses
A Turkish police officer has been fired from his job and briefly put in pre-trial detention for being gay, the Deutsche Welle reported. Speaking to the DWTurkce on Wednesday, the dismissed police officer said that he was dismissed from his job in November 2018 for...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 14, 2019 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses
Turkish police have fired water cannon at election banners that promote the candidates of the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in the upcoming municipal election in Turkey. A video footage posted by a twitter account, shows the moment police fire water cannon...
Purge-victim police officer reinstated to job a month after his death
Purge-victim judge’s last ever pictures revealed
ODTÜ student gets 8 months in prison over tweets criticizing rector
24,256 dismissed from Turkish army since failed 2016 coup: Defense Ministry
Kurdish man released from prison after serving 30 years on terror charges
Turkish court rules to keep businessman Kavala in prison once again
2 Kurdish brothers set free after 30 years in Turkish prison: report
Former judge enters 44th day in prison with her 6-month-old baby: report
4-year-old child joins mother in prison: report
Turkish authorities say Kurdish prisoner committed suicide in Tekirdağ prison