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...
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...
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Erdogan-critic Turkish cleric set free after 22 months in pre-trial detention
Another Gülenist teacher at risk of deportation from Bosnia: report
Kurdish politician denied medical care for a week despite loss of consciousness
Turkey sends 3 more Kurdish mayors to prison on terror charges: report
At least “500 terrorists” still in Turkey, says Turkish interior minister: report
Purge-victim man denied inheritance over suspected links to Turkey’s Gülen group
Patent owner of Turkey’s famed Topuz Kebab gets 10 years in prison on coup charges: report
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