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...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 16, 2019 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses
Sertuğ Sürenoğlu, a Turkish citizen and an İstanbul-based lawyer, was beaten by the bodyguards of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan after he objected to the president’s security detail holding up traffic, the Sözcü daily reported. Erdoğan on Sunday attended the wedding...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 14, 2019 | Human Rights Abuses, Human Tragedies
When a 7-year-old boy finally got to see his imprisoned father again, cameras were rolling, and so were the tears. According to a video footage posted by a twitter account, a Turkish man who was put in pre-trial detention on terror and coup charges in early 2017, has...
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