by TurkeyPurge | Apr 3, 2017 | Anti-Kurdish, Human Rights Abuses
70-year-old Kemal Gun was fined TL 8,626 [ $2,400] for an ongoing hunger strike he started as part of his efforts to be given the dead body of his child who was killed during an air attack by Turkish miliary in Tunceli’s Dersim district on Nov 7, 2016. 11 individuals...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 23, 2017 | Anti-Kurdish, Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown
Pro-Kurdish Amedspor has been attacked by nationalist fans of Konya Anadolu Selçukluspor after its 3-0 victory in an away game on Sunday. While the Diyarbakır-based club defeated Selçukluspor in the third division match the team bus was attacked before it left Konya,...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 23, 2017 | Anti-Kurdish, Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown
Pro-Kurdish football club Cizrespor players and managers were subjected to racist insults before they were physically attacked by fans and personnel of the opponent Bayburt Grup Özel İdare Gençlikspor (Bayburt GÖİ), and police officers. Cizrespor faced Bayburt GÖİ on...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 28, 2016 | Anti-Kurdish, Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Hüda Kaya claimed in a parliamentary commission that an imam in İstanbul called on people to take up arms against the HDP and also approved the killing of Kurds, calling them infidels. Speaking at the Constitution...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 28, 2016 | Anti-Gulen, Anti-Kurdish, Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses
Erkan Hayla, mayor of the Kale district in Denizli province from the Justice and Development Party (AKP), has designed a dungeon in a newly restored fortress for future inmates from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Gülen movement and has installed mannequins...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 14, 2016 | Anti-Kurdish, Human Rights Abuses
The shutdown of the health care system during the unrest and curfews in the Kurdish-dominated southeastern provinces of Turkey since peace efforts collapsed in July 2015 has had disastrous effects on people’s ability to access health care services – resulting in...
