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...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 4, 2019 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses
Another Turkish national was abducted by Turkey’s intelligence agency on February 16, according to the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy and human rights activist Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu Erkan Irmak, 43, was reportedly kidnapped in front of his house in İstanbul...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 28, 2019 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses
Sivas university has announced that the university management will soon change the university’s logo due to its similarity with figures on Fethullah Gulen’s pillows in his house in the United States. Gulen is a Turkish cleric who has been living in the US...
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