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...
Emotional reunion of 9-year-old daughter, disabled father after 20 months in Turkish prison
Dementia-suffering Kurdish politician released from prison
The head of Turkey’s doctors’ union sent to prison on terror accusations
Turkish police detain 543 people in 59 provinces over alleged Gülen links
Son of purge-victim judge jumps to his death from İstanbul’s Galata Tower
Constitutional court rejects jailed Kurdish youngster’s appeal for release
This Kurdish youngster in 6th year in Silivri prison on coup charges
14 more military cadets set free after 6 years in prison
Turkish gov’t seeks extradition of critical journalist Cevheri Güven
Purge-victim police officer dies after accident at a mining site in Gebze