by TurkeyPurge | May 9, 2020 | Hate Crime, Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses
Sevda Noyan, an Islamist TV commentator, said during a live TV interview that she regrets the fact that she failed to kill more people on the night of the July 15 coup attempt in 2016, adding that her family is now fully-prepared and is capable of...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 17, 2020 | Hate Crime, Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses
Nedim Şener, a pro-government columnist, said during a live interview that Gülenists are worse than the COVID-19 outbreak, which has recently been declared a global pandemic by World Health Organization (WHO). “Coronovirus is a disease that may be dealth with,...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 17, 2019 | Hate Crime, Hate Speech
Ekrem Yaşlı, a 61-year-old Kurdish man, was physically assaulted for speaking Kurdish at a public hospital in Çanakkale province, the pro-Kurdish HDP deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu confirmed. “Some people still ask why there is a Kurdish problem in...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 9, 2019 | Hate Crime, Hate Speech, Today in Crackdown
A Turkish insurance company would not provide service to a customer on the basis that he/she is suspected of ties to the Gulen movement, according to social media. The Twitter account @tutsakavukatt shared the screenshot of an error message the customer reportedly...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 11, 2018 | Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown
Turkish television anchor Erkan Tan, known for his staunch pro-government stance on A Haber TV, on Tuesday called for the beheading of protesters who were involved in the countrywide anti-government Gezi protests in the summer of 2013. While arguing in a column for...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 29, 2018 | Anti-Gulen, Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown
Pro-gov’t journalist calls for killing of Turkish businessman and individuals like him who he accused of being top Gulenists. Pro-government Turkish journalist Emre Erciş has called on Turkey’s intelligence agency to abduct or exterminate critical businessman Akın...
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