by TurkeyPurge | Aug 1, 2017 | Hate Crime, Today in Crackdown
A government appointed trustee, tasked to run Van’s Edremit Municipality, has built public toilets on an Armenian cemetery in the district, the proKurdish Dİhaber news portal reported on Tuesday. The report claimed that the bones from the cemetery were scattered after...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 30, 2017 | Hate Crime
A graphic video circulating on social media that purportedly shows Turkish soldiers beating a group of young Syrian refugees who were caught trying to enter Turkey, has prompted an investigation by the Turkish military and prosecutors. In a video footage, posted on...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 29, 2017 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown
Abdurrahman Şimşek, Sabah’s special editor for intelligence reporting, admitted on Friday that Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) abducted several people who have links to the Gülen movement and illegally questioned them before handing them over to the...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 21, 2017 | Hate Crime
A group of ultra-nationalists affiliated with Alperen Hearths, an offshoot of the Turkish nationalist movement called the Grey Wolves (Ülkü Ocakları), gathered in front of the Neve Shalom synagogue in Istanbul on Thursday night and kicked the synagogue’s gates while...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 9, 2017 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses, Torture
A video that has recently emerged on social media purportedly shows a group of Turkish-speaking soldiers posing with beheaded people or allegedly outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants. Turkey Purge cannot authenticate the details regarding the newly...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 8, 2017 | Hate Crime, Hate Speech
Hüseyin Adalan, a columnist for pro-government Milat and Yenisöz dailies, has tweeted that killing people affiliated with Turkey’s Gülen movement is “a religious obligation for Turkish state,” the Haberdar daily reported. “Honorable Turkish state needs to reveal its...
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