by TurkeyPurge | Mar 31, 2020 | Int'l Reactions
Human Rights Watch (HRW) and several EP officialls have called on the Turkish government to release all political prisoners to stem COVID-19 spread. Nacho Sánchez Amor, the European Parliament’s standing rapporteur on Turkey, and Sergey Lagodinsky and the chair of the...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 25, 2020 | Int'l Reactions
The European Parliament’s Turkey rapporteur, Nacho Sanchez Amor, has called on the Turkish government to release hundreds of imprisoned journalists, lawyers, activists and human rights defenders within the scope of a new amnesty bill drafted due to serious health...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 5, 2020 | Int'l Reactions
Turkey remains in the “not free” category in the “Freedom in the World 2020” report published by the Washington-based Freedom House on Wednesday. Freedom House kept Turkey in the “not free” category to which it was downgraded from the “partly free” status in the 2018...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 9, 2020 | Int'l Reactions
An online petition has been launched to re-unite an eight-year-old Turkish kid who is receiving cancer treatment in Germany, with his mother, who is not allowed to leave Turkey due to a travel ban. The kid — Ahmet Burhan Ataç, — went to Germany on January...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 26, 2019 | Int'l Reactions
Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter thanked Canadian Minister Justin Trudeau and his government in a tweet on Wednesday for issuing him a visa to enter Canada to play in the NBA’s first Christmas game in Toronto. Kanter, an outspoken critic of Turkish President Recep...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 18, 2019 | Int'l Reactions
A Bosnian court has ruled for the release of Fatih Keskin, the principal of Una-Sana College, part of the Gülen-affiliated Richmond Park Schools Group, who was detained by the Bosnian police on Dec. 4, Bold Medya reported. Keskin was requested to appear at a police...
Turkish journalist berifly detained for protesting Erdogan’s call to raise funds for coronavirus relief
İHD calls on Turkish gov’t to release 1564 vulnerable prisoners with fatal diseases in face of COVID-19 outbreak
HRW, EP officials call on Turkish gov’t to release political prisoners to stem COVID-19
Turkey investigates at least 372 social media users over coronavirus posts: report
One million tweets call on Turkish authorites to release purge-victims to stem COVID-19
Turkish gov’t replaces 8 elected Kurdish mayors with pro-Erdogan trustees
Turkish government bans visits to prisons due to Covid-19 pandemic
Purge-victim man released from prison for 5 hours to visit cancer-stricken son
Coronavirus-related complaints reported in 26 Turkish prisons: report
EP rapporteur calls on Turkey to release purge-victim journalists, civilians to stem COVID-19