Report: 27,000 Turkish nationals sought asylum in Germany since 2016

by TurkeyPurge | May 13, 2019 | Int'l Reactions, Today in Crackdown

At total of 27,092 Turkish citizens sought asylum in Germany in the past three years, according to Deutsche Welle (DW). DW reported Monday that Germany has received a total of 27,092 asylum applications from Turkish nationals since 2016, a year that Turkey survived a...

51 people being held all together in a 12-people cell in prison, newly-released teacher says

by TurkeyPurge | May 11, 2019 | Int'l Reactions, Today in Crackdown

A total of 51 people are being kept in a cell in Diyarbakir prison that is meant for only 12 people,  Ayşe Çelik, a Kurdish teacher who was released from prison yesterday, has revealed. Turkey’s Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday that the imprisonment of Kurdish...

82 asylum seekers pushed back from Greece to Turkey in past three weeks: report

by TurkeyPurge | May 11, 2019 | Int'l Reactions

Scores of Turkish asylum seekers have been pushed back — sometimes violently — from Greece in the last three weeks, lawyers and family members told Euronews. Witnesses claim various groups of masked men in military uniform, as well as those in plain clothes...

DW: Turkish gov’t cancels press credentials of 682 journalists in 4 months

by TurkeyPurge | May 9, 2019 | Int'l Reactions

The Turkish government cancelled 682 press cards between November and March, Deutsche Welle Turkish service reported on Thursday. According to the report there were 15,423 permanent press card holders and 5,709 yellow, or temporary, press card holders in November...

DW: Around 3,000 inmates are being kept in solitary confinement in Erdogan’s prisons

by TurkeyPurge | May 8, 2019 | Int'l Reactions, Today in Crackdown

Thousands of prisoners are being held in solitary confinement in Turkey under conditions so harsh that some prisoners consider dying by suicide, Deutsche Welle reported Tuesday. There are no official figures on the number of prisoners in solitary confinement or how...

NBA terminates contract with Turkish PR company due to censorship on Enes Kanter

by TurkeyPurge | May 3, 2019 | Int'l Reactions

The National Basketball Association (NBA) terminated its contract with a Turkish PR company that controls its local Twitter account after the latter failed to mention Enes Kanter’s name among high-performers following a play-off game. ““Fans in Turkey can watch all...