by TurkeyPurge | Aug 25, 2019 | Int'l Reactions
Tens of Kurds living in Canada has marched in protest against the Turkish government’s recent removal of the mayors of Diyarbakır, Mardin and Van over alleged terrorist links. According to Mutlu Civiroglu, a Kurdish affairs analyst, Kurds marched late on Saturday...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 23, 2019 | Int'l Reactions
Eight Turkish citizens whose passports were revoked by the Turkish government and legal residence in Mongolia ended at the end of July travelled to Canada on August 11 just after Canada decided to grant asylum, Bold Medya reported on Thursday. The people are accused...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 17, 2019 | Int'l Reactions
A fundraising campaign has been launched for Fatma Gormez, a purge-victim teacher who is disabled, had a kidney transplant, 2 heart surgeries, and recently lost her hearing ability completely. Fatma and her husband Bekir are accused of having ties to the Gulen group,...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 13, 2019 | Int'l Reactions
Amnesty International on Tuesday issued an 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...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 10, 2019 | Int'l Reactions
Four political parties in the Turkish parliament issued a joint statement on Friday calling for the extradition from the US of Turkish-Islamic cleric Fethullah Gülen, who is accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016. The...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 11, 2019 | Int'l Reactions
Saturday Mothers, a group of activists and relatives seeking the whereabouts of loved ones who disappeared while in police custody in the 1990s, held a protest on Saturday with the wives of abductees who were sought in investigations into the Gülen movement. The...