by TurkeyPurge | Apr 18, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish prosecutor is seeking a three-year jail sentence for journalist Nurcan Baysal due to her tweets critical of an ongoing Turkish military operation in the Kurdish-controlled Afrin region of Syria, according to the Mesopotamia news agency. Baysal was detained...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 5, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Professor Füsun Üstel, one of the academics who signed a peace declaration in early 2016 criticizing the Turkish government for its violation of human rights and civilian casualties among the predominantly Kurdish population of eastern Turkey, has been handed down a...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 4, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Detention warrant was issued for Kemal Özkiraz, the coordinatior of the Eurasia Public Opinion Research Centre (AKAM), media reported on Tuesday. Police raided Özkiraz’s home and workplace, to no avail. A lawyer representing him said Özkiraz would stop by the...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 3, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
9 Boğaziçi student have been arrested by an İstanbul court while 6 others released pending trial after participating in protests against Turkey’s Afrin operation, the T24 news portal reported. On March 19, a group of students protested other students who had set up a...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 2, 2018 | Int'l Reactions
A total of 1,250 academics from more than 100 organizations across 37 countries of the world have signed a petition asking for the release of 15 Boğaziçi University students in Turkey who were detained in March for holding a protest against an ongoing Turkish military...
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