by TurkeyPurge | Jun 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
A Turkish court has banned access to two international news websites, Germany’s state-run broadcaster Deutsche Welle and the US state-owned international multimedia broadcaster, VOA (Amerika’nın Sesi). The court ruling came after two news outlets refused to obtain a...
by TurkeyPurge | May 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
Abdullah Ece, 73-year-old imprisoned Kurdish man, died of COVID-19 in İzmir’s Buca prison, the Bold news portal reported. Ece reportedly contracted COVID-19 for the first time on April 5. He was eventually transferred to a state hospital where he died from...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu flashed the “Grey Wolf” sign in front of a group of Armenians marching for the anniversary of the Armenian genocide in Uruguay on Saturday. Turkish nationalists often use the salutation of the Grey Wolves, “a...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Twitter account of Turkish journalist Ahmet Dönmez has been suspended days after he was attacked by an unidentified mob in broad daylight in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. Dönmez is a Turkish journalist with some 20 years of experience. From the early 2000s, he...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
Ahmet Olgun, a police officer who burned himself to death, was laid to rest on Saturday in his hometown of Ünye, a district of Ordu Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey. Olgun was fired from his job with a gov’t decree issued after a coup attempt in 2016. He...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
Esra Çiçeklidağ, a former judge who has spent some three months in prison with her 8 month old baby, was released pending trial on Monday, Turkish journalist Sevinç Özarslan reported. The purge-victim judge is accused of alleged links to the Gulen group, which the...
Turkish court bans access to Turkish editions of Deutsche Welle, VOA
Purge-victim military cadet pays visit to opposition leader days after being released from prison
Police detain 7 university students over “terrorism” accusations
Turkish court removes travel ban for former Zaman journalists
Antalya police detain YouTube journalist Arif Kocabıyık
87-year-old bedridden inmate fit to remain in prison, says Turkish Council of Forensic Medicine
İstanbul Pride: At least 361 LGBT activists detained throughout Sunday’s parade
Purge-victim law professor drowns trying to save friend at an Ontario lake
Hundreds gather in Strasbourg to demand justice for victims of Turkey’s post-coup crackdown