by TurkeyPurge | Apr 9, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Detention warrants were issued for 292 people over Gulen links in 6 provinces, state-run Anadolu news agency said Tuesday. Prosecutors in Ankara, İzmir, Konya, Adıyaman, Gaziantep and Kütahya provinces issued the warrants and police carried out raids to detain...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 30, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) said at least 64 members were detained in less than 24 hours before the election. 31 of them were remanded in prison pending trial, a statement by an HDP parliamentarian noted.. The number of people detained since the...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 26, 2019 | Int'l Reactions
An indictment accusing civic leader Osman Kavala and 15 others of financing and organizing mass protests in Turkey in 2013 in an attempt to overthrow the government provides no credible evidence of criminal activity, Human Rights Watch said on Monday. The defendants...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 26, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
A former top judge who was jailed as part of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s post-coup crackdown has been sentenced to 7.5 years in prison. Former Supreme Court of Appeals member Mine Kaya was convicted of membership to the Gulen movement, a broadened terror charge...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 19, 2019 | Human Tragedies
Bekir Gürcan, a primary school teacher from the western province of Manisa who was dismissed as part of the Turkish government’s post-coup purge of state institutions, died of cancer. Gürcan was diagnosed with colon cancer in December, 2018. Bold Medya reported...
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U.S. House Committee Chair calls on Turkish President Erdogan to release purge-victim prisoners in face of COVID-19 outbreak
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Turkish woman says she was tortured with acid in police custody: report
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