by TurkeyPurge | May 28, 2019 | Today in Crackdown, Torture
The Ankara Bar Association on Tuesday published a report including interviews with five detainees who were subjected to torture last weekend at a detention center in Ankara, exposing details of the torture perpetrated by law enforcement officials. Another detainee who...
by TurkeyPurge | May 27, 2019 | Today in Crackdown, Torture
Rumors have it that former Foreign Ministry employees are being subject to torture and sexual abuse while under custody at Ankara Police Department, opposition deputy and a human rights activist Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu said. “There are allegations of torture at Ankara...
by TurkeyPurge | May 20, 2019 | Today in Crackdown, Torture
At least 20 people have been detained by Turkish army in Halfeti village of Şanlıurfa province over their alleged links to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which is classified as a terrorist organization by the EU, the US and Turkey. Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a...
by TurkeyPurge | May 12, 2019 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses
Turkish journalist and TV host Yavuz Selim Demirağ was attacked on Friday night by a group of individuals with sticks, the Diken newspaper reported. The columnist, who writes for the government-critical and ultranationalist Yeniçağ daily, was hospitalized for possible...
by TurkeyPurge | May 9, 2019 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses
A graphic video that has recently emerged on social media purportedly shows a group of soldiers with uniforms bearing Turkish flag beating a Kurdish villager in Afrin, a town in northern Syria. Turkey Purge cannot authenticate the newly surfaced video, which was...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 21, 2019 | Hate Crime
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has been attacked by a group of people at the funeral of 26-year-old Turkish infantryman who was killed on Friday during an operation against Kurdish militants on Turkey’s border...
Emotional reunion of 9-year-old daughter, disabled father after 20 months in Turkish prison
Dementia-suffering Kurdish politician released from prison
The head of Turkey’s doctors’ union sent to prison on terror accusations
Turkish police detain 543 people in 59 provinces over alleged Gülen links
Son of purge-victim judge jumps to his death from İstanbul’s Galata Tower
Constitutional court rejects jailed Kurdish youngster’s appeal for release
This Kurdish youngster in 6th year in Silivri prison on coup charges
14 more military cadets set free after 6 years in prison
Turkish gov’t seeks extradition of critical journalist Cevheri Güven
Purge-victim police officer dies after accident at a mining site in Gebze