Turkish police fire water cannon at pro-Kurdish election posters: report

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...

İstanbul man abducted by armed group: HDP deputy

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...

Sivas university to change logo due to similarity with figures on Gulen’s pillows

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...

Antalya man has been missing for over three weeks: Turkish deputy

by TurkeyPurge | Feb 25, 2019 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses

Gökhan Türken, a Turkish citizen, has been missing for a total of nineteen days, according to the rights activist and opposition deputy Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu. “Another missing person. No one has heard from Gökhan Türkmen since he went missing 19 days ago. He went...

İYİ Party district head, brother shot dead on election day: report

by TurkeyPurge | Jun 25, 2018 | Hate Crime

Mehmet Sıddık Durmaz, a local representative for the İYİ (Good) Party from the Karaçoban district was shot dead at a polling station in Erzurum province in a blood feud fight, his party has announced. Only a day later, his brother Savaş Durmaz was also shot dead while...

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...