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...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 12, 2019 | Int'l Reactions
Amnesty Germany has issued another urgent action document, calling on human rights activists and concerned people to write letters urging Turkish authorities to investigate and explain the whereabouts of Gökhan Türkmen and Mustafa Yılmaz, who have been missing since...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 6, 2019 | Int'l Reactions
The 2019 European Archaeological Heritage Prize has been bestowed on prominent Turkish businessman and activist Osman Kavala who has been held in pre-trial detention in İstanbul’s notorious Silivri Prison since November 2017 on terror and coup charges. According to...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 5, 2019 | Int'l Reactions
A group of Turkish lawyers who fled an ongoing purge in Turkey, has come together in Berlin, Germany, to mark the opening of the new judicial year, the Kronos news portal reported. According to the report, the event was held in support of some 50 bar associations in...