by TurkeyPurge | Jul 22, 2017 | Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses
Turkey’s Interior Ministry has published a 54-page-long booklet on the outlawed Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C), in which it described the jailed educators who have been on hunger strike in protest of the government’s post-coup dismissals....
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 17, 2017 | Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said people detained over coup charges should wear a single outfit, like in Guantanamo. “When they appear in court, let’s make them appear in one-type uniform like in Guantanamo,” Erdogan said during an Istanbul rally to mark the first...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 17, 2017 | Anti-Gulen, Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses
Sedat Peker, a convicted gang leader and staunch supporter of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said they will hang all people linked to the Gülen movement from flagpoles and trees, the Diken news website reported on Sunday. “They should pray for our president,...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 16, 2017 | Anti-Gulen, Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown
Following President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s promise “to cut off traitors’ heads,” the pro-government media called for an Ottoman-like solution for the execution of people linked to the Gülen movement, which Erdoğan accuses of masterminding a coup attempt in Turkey on...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 13, 2017 | Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses
Demonizing remarks on Turkey’s Gulen group have reached a new level with government supporters resorting to obscenity in hate speech against its supporters. Turkish government accused the Gulen movement for masterminding the July 15, 2016 coup attempt while the latter...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 8, 2017 | Hate Speech
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said during a press conference on Saturday that he perceives pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chairperson Selahattin Demirtaş to be a terrorist, the Diken news website reported. Speaking to the press after the...