by TurkeyPurge | Sep 19, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Armenians who were leaving the Narlı Kapı Church in İstanbul on Sunday were stoned by a group of children who chanted “Death to you,” the artigerçek news website reported on Monday. An ultranationalist group recently attacked the funeral of the mother of jailed...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 8, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish-Armenian linguist and writer Sevan Nişanyan, who escaped from prison last month, has said his money at a bank was seized by the government. Jailed on nine different charges including illegal construction in 2014, Nişanyan escaped from Foça prison in Turkey’s...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 14, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Garo Paylan, an Armenian-origin Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy was banned from Parliament for the next three sittings after he used the word ‘genocide’ during his speech, on Friday. “We used to account for 40 percent [of the population]. Now we are barely one...
Turkish journalist says Karabük police arrests 14 female university students in midnight raids
6-month pregnant jailed woman released on probation after almost 2 months in prison
Turkish Supreme Court of Appeals upholds 4-year prison time for leading opposition figure
24 former public officials detained in midnight raids for “providing financial support” to families of imprisoned “Gulenists”
6-month pregnant jailed woman hospitalized due to heavy breathing difficulty
Turkish court arrests military cadet for third time in 6 months
Retired engineer with Parkinson’s disease in prison for almost a year over coup, terror charges
Turkish pop singer deletes solidarity tweet for jailed women upon being criticized by pro-gov’t media
Turkish court jails 80-year-old couple on terror charges
Erdogan-critic Turkish cleric once again sent to prison on “terror” charges