by TurkeyPurge | Dec 12, 2019 | Int'l Reactions
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has listed Turkey as the second worst jailer of journalists in its annual report for the year 2019. The CPJ’s report, released on Wednesday, said this year’s census marks the first time in four years that...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 4, 2019 | Int'l Reactions
Purge Museum, “Tenkil Müzesi” in Turkish, an initiative that collects and exhibits items belonging to the victims of Turkey’s massive crackdown on the Gülen movement, opened for a ten-day run in Brussels on Friday evening. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 1, 2019 | Int'l Reactions
Hundreds of people have been detained in Turkey for commenting or reporting on Turkey’s recent military offensive in northeast Syria and are facing absurd criminal charges as the government intensifies its crackdown on critical voices, said Amnesty International in a...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 21, 2019 | Int'l Reactions
Canada-based NTV news has interviewed Mehmet Efe Caman, a Turkish political science professor, about an ongoing government purge in Turkey and how it impacted his life over the past several years. “A Turkish political science professor at Memorial University is...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 21, 2019 | Int'l Reactions
Journalists who fled a government crackdown in Turkey and took shelter in Germany held a protest over the weekend on the sidelines of a book fair in Frankfurt in support of their jailed colleagues in Turkey, Bold Medya reported. The exiled journalists met in Frankfurt...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 9, 2019 | Int'l Reactions
The parents of two children who died in a boat accident in the Aegean Sea while trying to flee Turkey to avoid an ongoing purge by the Erdogan government, were interviewed by a Turkish news portal. They said that they they waited for ten hours at sea to be rescued...
Turkish folk band member dies on 288th day of hunger strike
Turkey arrests another journalist for insulting “Erdogan’s call to raise funds for COVID-19 relief
Purge-victim Çanakkale woman “possibly” commits suicide: report
Prison riot in southeast Turkey over coronavirus fears
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