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Video shows 5 police officers beating up woman in İstanbul

Video shows 5 police officers beating up woman in İstanbul

by TurkeyPurge | Jun 4, 2021 | Hate Crime, Today in Crackdown | 0 Comments

Video footage shows five police officers beating up a woman laying on the ground in İstanbul's Esenyurt district. The footage posted by Sezgin Tanrıkulu shows an unknown woman  is being kicked and punched by officers late on June 3. The officers in the video have...

Turkish commentator says her family is ready to execute people for Erdogan

Turkish commentator says her family is ready to execute people for Erdogan

by TurkeyPurge | May 9, 2020 | Hate Crime, Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses | 0 Comments

Sevda Noyan, an Islamist TV commentator, said during a live TV interview that she regrets the fact that she failed to kill more people on the night of the July 15 coup attempt in 2016, adding that her family is now fully-prepared and is capable of "executing" some 50...

Pro-government columnist says Gulenists are worse than Coronavirus disease

Pro-government columnist says Gulenists are worse than Coronavirus disease

by TurkeyPurge | Mar 17, 2020 | Hate Crime, Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses | 0 Comments

Nedim Şener, a pro-government columnist, said during a live interview that Gülenists are worse than the COVID-19 outbreak, which has recently been declared a global pandemic by World Health Organization (WHO). "Coronovirus is a disease that may be dealth with,...

Man attacked for speaking Kurdish in public: deputy confirms

Man attacked for speaking Kurdish in public: deputy confirms

by TurkeyPurge | Oct 17, 2019 | Hate Crime, Hate Speech | 0 Comments

Ekrem Yaşlı, a 61-year-old Kurdish man, was physically assaulted for speaking Kurdish at a public hospital in Çanakkale province, the pro-Kurdish HDP deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu confirmed. "Some people still ask why there is a Kurdish problem in Turkey,"...

Turkish insurance company denies service to suspected Gulenists: claim

Turkish insurance company denies service to suspected Gulenists: claim

by TurkeyPurge | Aug 9, 2019 | Hate Crime, Hate Speech, Today in Crackdown | 0 Comments

A Turkish insurance company would not provide service to a customer on the basis that he/she is suspected of ties to the Gulen movement, according to social media. The Twitter account @tutsakavukatt shared the screenshot of an error message the customer reportedly...

Gov’t-critical journalist Selim Demirağ assaulted in front of his house in Ankara

Gov’t-critical journalist Selim Demirağ assaulted in front of his house in Ankara

by TurkeyPurge | May 12, 2019 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses | 0 Comments

Turkish journalist and TV host Yavuz Selim Demirağ was attacked on Friday night by a group of individuals with sticks, the Diken newspaper reported. The columnist, who writes for the government-critical and ultranationalist Yeniçağ daily, was hospitalized for possible...

Video purportedly shows Turkish soldiers torturing Kurdish villager in Afrin

Video purportedly shows Turkish soldiers torturing Kurdish villager in Afrin

by TurkeyPurge | May 9, 2019 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses | 0 Comments

A graphic video that has recently emerged on social media purportedly shows a group of soldiers with uniforms bearing Turkish flag beating a Kurdish villager in Afrin, a town in northern Syria. Turkey Purge cannot authenticate the newly surfaced video, which was...

Turkey’s main opposition leader attacked at military funeral in Ankara

Turkey’s main opposition leader attacked at military funeral in Ankara

by TurkeyPurge | Apr 21, 2019 | Hate Crime | 0 Comments

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has been attacked by a group of people at the funeral of 26-year-old Turkish infantryman who was killed on Friday during an operation against Kurdish militants on Turkey’s border...

Turkish lawyer beaten by President Erdoğan’s bodyguards in İstanbul: report

Turkish lawyer beaten by President Erdoğan’s bodyguards in İstanbul: report

by TurkeyPurge | Apr 16, 2019 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses | 0 Comments

Sertuğ Sürenoğlu, a Turkish citizen and an İstanbul-based lawyer, was beaten by the bodyguards of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan after he objected to the president’s security detail holding up traffic, the Sözcü daily reported. Erdoğan on Sunday attended the wedding...

Video purportedly shows pro-gov’t mob attacks opposition’s Adana candidate

Video purportedly shows pro-gov’t mob attacks opposition’s Adana candidate

by TurkeyPurge | Apr 5, 2019 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses | 0 Comments

A video footage that has recently been released by ilerihaber.org news portal purportedly shows a pro-government mob attacking an opposition mayor candidate, Kamuran Karaca, outside of the election board building in Adana's Yüreğir district. Karaca was nominated by...

Van police officer fired from job for being gay: report

Van police officer fired from job for being gay: report

by TurkeyPurge | Mar 16, 2019 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses | 0 Comments

A Turkish police officer has been fired from his job and briefly put in pre-trial detention for being gay, the Deutsche Welle reported. Speaking to the DWTurkce on Wednesday, the dismissed police officer said that he was dismissed from his job in November 2018 for...

Turkish police fire water cannon at pro-Kurdish election posters: report

Turkish police fire water cannon at pro-Kurdish election posters: report

by TurkeyPurge | Mar 14, 2019 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses | 0 Comments

Turkish police have fired water cannon at election banners that promote the candidates of the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP)  in the upcoming municipal election in Turkey. A video footage posted by a twitter account, shows the moment police fire water cannon...

İstanbul man abducted by armed group: HDP deputy

İstanbul man abducted by armed group: HDP deputy

by TurkeyPurge | Mar 4, 2019 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses | 0 Comments

Another Turkish national was abducted by Turkey’s intelligence agency on February 16, according to the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy and human rights activist Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu  Erkan Irmak, 43, was reportedly kidnapped in front of his house in İstanbul...

Sivas university to change logo due to similarity with figures on Gulen’s pillows

Sivas university to change logo due to similarity with figures on Gulen’s pillows

by TurkeyPurge | Feb 28, 2019 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses | 0 Comments

Sivas university has announced that the university management will soon change the university's logo due to its similarity with figures on Fethullah Gulen's pillows in his house in the United States. Gulen is a Turkish cleric who has been living in the US since 1999....

Antalya man has been missing for over three weeks: Turkish deputy

Antalya man has been missing for over three weeks: Turkish deputy

by TurkeyPurge | Feb 25, 2019 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses | 0 Comments

Gökhan Türken, a Turkish citizen, has been missing for a total of nineteen days, according to the rights activist and opposition deputy Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu. “Another missing person. No one has heard from Gökhan Türkmen since he went missing 19 days ago. He went...

İYİ Party district head, brother shot dead on election day: report

İYİ Party district head, brother shot dead on election day: report

by TurkeyPurge | Jun 25, 2018 | Hate Crime | 0 Comments

Mehmet Sıddık Durmaz, a local representative for the İYİ (Good) Party from the Karaçoban district was shot dead at a polling station in Erzurum province in a blood feud fight, his party has announced. Only a day later, his brother Savaş Durmaz was also shot dead while...

Alevi home in Istanbul marked with racist slur

Alevi home in Istanbul marked with racist slur

by TurkeyPurge | Dec 2, 2017 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses, Religious Minorities, Today in Crackdown | 0 Comments

The home of an Istanbul family with reported Alevi background was attacked with racist graffiti on its door that read: “Get out, atheist,” on Thursday night. According to Mezopotamya news agency, the walls of the apartment was also marked with crosses and “three...

Turkish police to use ‘German model’ in fight against Gülenists: report

Turkish police to use ‘German model’ in fight against Gülenists: report

by TurkeyPurge | Nov 28, 2017 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses | 0 Comments

The Turkish National Police Academy has published a new report that offers a comprehensive road map to fight against the members of the Gülen group, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt last year. According to pro-Erdoğan daily Sabah,...

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