by TurkeyPurge | Mar 17, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
An Ankara court on Friday sentenced Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) former deputy co-chair Aysel Tuğluk to 10 years in prison in a case in which she was tried for allegedly “being the leader of a terror organization.” According to a report by the...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 3, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) parliamentarian Aysel Tuğluk, already in jail on terror charges, was sentenced to 1.5 years in prison. A Kocaeli court sentenced Tuğluk to 18 months in jail for “violation of law on meetings.” Turkish government has stepped up...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 28, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
The deputy co-chair of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Aysel Tuğluk, was arrested by a Diyarbakır court on Wednesday as part of a terror investigation targeting the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Congress (DTK). Tuğluk was detained in Ankara on Monday on charges...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 26, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
The deputy co-chair of Peoples’ Democracy Party (HDP) Aysel Tuğluk was detained in Ankara over alleged charges of terrorism on Monday. In a separate counter-terror police operation in Diyarbakır, two more Kurdish politicians, deputy co-chairs of Democratic Regions...
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