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...
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...
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...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 28, 2017 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses
The Turkish National Police Academy has published a new report that offers a comprehensive road map to fight against the members of the Gülen group, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt last year. According to pro-Erdoğan daily Sabah,...