by TurkeyPurge | Jun 8, 2021 | Int'l Reactions
The Turkish government has rendered more than 100 citizens from at least 20 countries around the world since a coup attempt in July 15, 2016, according to Nate Schenkkan, the director of research strategy at Freedom House. “Turkey has rendered LOTS of people...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 8, 2021 | Int'l Reactions
The International Criminal Police Organization, commonly known as INTERPOL, is reportedly in process of assisting the Kyrgyz authorities in search of Orhan İnandı, a Turkish citizen who is feared to have been abducted by Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 3, 2021 | Int'l Reactions
Human Rights Foundation has expressed concerns over the recent kidnapping of a Turkish national living in Kyrgyzstan by Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT). Releasing a written statement on Wednesday, the foundation said called on the Kyrgyz president to...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 3, 2021 | Int'l Reactions
An online petition has been launched by Amnesty International to call on Kyrgyz authorities to prevent the illegal deportation of a Turkish citizen abducted by Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) as part of Erdogan government’s intense crackdown on...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 23, 2020 | Int'l Reactions, Today in Crackdown
9 international human rights groups have called on governments aroud the world, NGOs and the UN to push the Turkish government to release political prisoners and “condemn its use of the pandemic to further target human rights defenders.” The right groups...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 18, 2020 | Int'l Reactions, Today in Crackdown
Eliot L. Engel, Democrat of New York and the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, wrote a letter last week calling on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to release journalists, civil society activists, and members of the political opposition “who...
Turkish reporter Ayşenur Parıldak set free after spending some 6 years in prison
73-year-old Kurdish man dies of Covid-19 in prison: report
1.5-year-old child joins mother in prison: report
Turkish journalist says Karabük police arrests 14 female university students in midnight raids
6-month pregnant jailed woman released on probation after almost 2 months in prison
Turkish Supreme Court of Appeals upholds 4-year prison time for leading opposition figure
24 former public officials detained in midnight raids for “providing financial support” to families of imprisoned “Gulenists”
6-month pregnant jailed woman hospitalized due to heavy breathing difficulty
Turkish court arrests military cadet for third time in 6 months
Retired engineer with Parkinson’s disease in prison for almost a year over coup, terror charges