by TurkeyPurge | Jun 15, 2017 | Hate Speech, Today in Crackdown
Cem Küçük and Fuat Uğur, two staunch supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, made a call on Thursday for the assassination of followers of Turkey’s Hülen group who are abroad, during a live broadcast on the TGRT news channel. The group is accused by the...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 13, 2017 | Hate Crime
Eight construction workers from Bingöl, a Kurdish majority city, were reportedly attacked by what appeared to be a nationalist mob late on Monday at a construction site in the town of Nallıhan in Ankara province, the Gazeteduvar news agency reported on Tuesday. The...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 8, 2017 | Hate Speech, Today in Crackdown
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in a public speech on Wednesday that if people affiliated with Turkey’s Gülen group are released from prison after completing their prison terms, the Turkish public will “punish them in the streets.” The speech drew strong...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 7, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Torture
Bergül Varan, a Turkish woman who was briefly detained over terror charges said police tore out her hair with Ottomans military band, widely known as Mehter, playing in the background during detention. “They rooted out my hair and dance with Mehter march”...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 2, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Human Tragedies
A 9-year-old girl was separated from her foster family as the adoptive father is being under investigation over his alleged links to the Gulen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15, 2016 failed coup attempt. An official from Turkey’s...
by TurkeyPurge | May 24, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Torture
Lt. Col. Levent Turkkan, the former aide-de-camp of the Chief of General Staff Hulusi Akar said his testimony was taken under torture, during his first court hearing on Tuesday. “None of my statements are genuine. I was all destroyed. They drip-fed me. They x-rayed my...
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