by TurkeyPurge | Feb 25, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
At least 80 women, including high school and university students, were subject to torture and other forms of ill-treatment at the hands of a group of police officers at Mersin police station, according to several twitter accounts and media outlets. The women were...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 3, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Pınar Türk, İstanbul district head for the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP), has been put in pre-trial detention by an İstanbul court, the Birgün daily reported on Friday. According to the report, Türk was jailed distributing leaflets lambasting a recent state...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 9, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The Turkish government has been using emergency rule to suppress the dissident groups instead of “fighting the coup plotters,” the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said. According to a report by the Hurriyet daily...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 28, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
Georges Dassis, president of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), said on Thursday he was disappointed by the detention of human rights activist and prominent businessman Osman Kavala in Turkey and urged his immediate release. In a letter to...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 6, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s top judicial body, the Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) has dismissed 39 more judges and public prosecutors over alleged links to the Gülen group, which is accused by the Turkish government of being behind a failed coup last year. The state-run Anadolu...
Erdogan threatens to expel 10 Western ambassador over Kavala issue
Antalya police detain 72-year-old woman for protesting imprisonment of daughter with stage 4 maxillary sinus cancer
Turkish gov’t to increase prison capacity by a further 500,000 beds by 2024: deputy
Kurdish politician sentenced to 20 months in prison for spreading “terrorist propaganda”
Covid-19 patient sent to prison in a specially designed jumpsuit over Gulen links: report
Detention warrants issued for 113 people over alleged Gülen links: report
Visually impaired lawyer in prison for 275 days over Gulen links: report
Purge-victim disabled army veteran is in his 240th day of imprisonment on terror charges:
800 days ago today: Purge-victim Ankara man goes missing