by TurkeyPurge | May 24, 2018 | Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses
Ahmet Maranki, a professor of complementary medicine, has said during a live TV interview that a civil war would break out in Turkey if the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) does not win upcoming elections slated for June 24. Speaking on a live program on...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 26, 2018 | Anti-Gulen, Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown
Pro-government journalist and writer Fazıl Duygun has called on authorities to force people jailed over their links to the Gulen movement to commit suicide. “FETO supporters should be forced in an appropriate way to commit suicide. Because these vile people do not...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 27, 2018 | Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses
Justice and Development Party (AKP) Gaziantep deputy Şamil Tayyar has welcomed the death news of a soldier from the US Special Forces in northern Syria’s Afrin region, where four days ago the Turkish military launched an offensive against Kurdish-held positions. “Wow....
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 25, 2018 | Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown
Kral FM radio host Ali Şentürk, known as “Afrikalı Ali,” called on security forces to kill anybody who criticizes Turkey’s operation in the Kurdish-controlled Afrin region of Syria, Cumhuriyet reported. “I am calling on the police. They should show no mercy. The...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 21, 2018 | Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s chief advisor, Mehmet Uçum, has said the Turkish state can apologize to the victims of a post-coup crackdown only years after the events take place as Australia did for the Aborigines, the US did for the Native Americans and...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 6, 2018 | Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses
Turkey’s first openly racist political party was founded on Dec. 20, the Duvar news portal reported on Jan. 5. The Ötüken Union Party was established by a group of Turkish nationalists and has officially been included by the Supreme Court of Appeals...