by TurkeyPurge | Feb 28, 2019 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses
Sivas university has announced that the university management will soon change the university’s logo due to its similarity with figures on Fethullah Gulen’s pillows in his house in the United States. Gulen is a Turkish cleric who has been living in the US...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 25, 2019 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses
Gökhan Türken, a Turkish citizen, has been missing for a total of nineteen days, according to the rights activist and opposition deputy Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu. “Another missing person. No one has heard from Gökhan Türkmen since he went missing 19 days ago. He went...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 11, 2018 | Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown
Turkish television anchor Erkan Tan, known for his staunch pro-government stance on A Haber TV, on Tuesday called for the beheading of protesters who were involved in the countrywide anti-government Gezi protests in the summer of 2013. While arguing in a column for...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 29, 2018 | Anti-Gulen, Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown
Pro-gov’t journalist calls for killing of Turkish businessman and individuals like him who he accused of being top Gulenists. Pro-government Turkish journalist Emre Erciş has called on Turkey’s intelligence agency to abduct or exterminate critical businessman Akın...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 20, 2018 | Human Tragedies, Torture
Turkish journalist Cevheri Guven has claimed in a video footage that post-coup detainees are being taken to a specially-equipped building in Ankara where they are subject to torture . In a recent video recording published by the online news portal Bold Medya, Guven...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 9, 2018 | Human Rights Abuses, Torture
Former Lt. Cdr. Cafer Topkaya, a purged and jailed Turkish naval officer who was assigned to NATO prior to a failed coup in Turkey, has told Deutsche Welle that he is coming out of the shadows to relate what he experienced “for those who can’t meet the press, who...