by TurkeyPurge | Jan 29, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A Mardin court on Sunday ruled for the arrest of Iranian-Kurdish writer Jiyar Cihanferd and his friend Hassan Balada on charges of “membership in a terrorist organization.” According to the Diken news portal, Cihanferd and Balada, who have been kept under...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 9, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
A court in Turkey’s eastern Hakkari province on Thursday arrested Adile Kozay, the co-mayor of Yüksekova district and Hilal Duman, the co-mayor of Çukurca district on charges of alleged links to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Both co-mayors are from the...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 8, 2016 | Human Tragedies
Hacer Çakmak, the mother of three children, two of them disabled, and the wife of a Turkish judge who is under arrest, is among hundreds of thousands of people who found themselves facing tremendous difficulties after the government started a desperate crackdown on...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 1, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
More than 50 Nigerian students were detained on Friday in Turkey, allegedly on the orders of the government, the Thisday news website has reported. According to Thisday, a source whose relative was among the detained students stated that “upon arrival at Ataturk...
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