Turkey’s main opposition leader attacked at military funeral in Ankara

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...

Turkish lawyer beaten by President Erdoğan’s bodyguards in İstanbul: report

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...

WATCH: Emotional reunion of 7-year-old son, father after almost 2 years in Turkish prison

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...

Video purportedly shows pro-gov’t mob attacks opposition’s Adana candidate

by TurkeyPurge | Apr 5, 2019 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses

A video footage that has recently been released by ilerihaber.org news portal purportedly shows a pro-government mob attacking an opposition mayor candidate, Kamuran Karaca, outside of the election board building in Adana’s Yüreğir district. Karaca was nominated...

Van police officer fired from job for being gay: report

by TurkeyPurge | Mar 16, 2019 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses

A Turkish police officer has been fired from his job and briefly put in pre-trial detention for being gay, the Deutsche Welle reported. Speaking to the DWTurkce on Wednesday, the dismissed police officer said that he was dismissed from his job in November 2018 for...

Turkish police fire water cannon at pro-Kurdish election posters: report

by TurkeyPurge | Mar 14, 2019 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses

Turkish police have fired water cannon at election banners that promote the candidates of the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP)  in the upcoming municipal election in Turkey. A video footage posted by a twitter account, shows the moment police fire water cannon...