by TurkeyPurge | Nov 3, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
54-year-old Kenan Keklik has been spending his 3 years and 45 days of prison sentence for allegedly chanting slogans on behalf of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) back in 2011. Keklik who has speech and hearing impairment since birth was arrested and put in...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 21, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Three district mayors from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in the eastern province of Bitlis who were detained on Dec. 14 as part of a terrorism probe were arrested on Wednesday. With the arrest of the co-mayors, the total number of those behind bars...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 21, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
The Turkish government has arrested a total of 64 co-mayors from the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP) in the past couple of months, seized the administration of 46 municipalities, and jailed a total of 3,051 DBP members, according to the Diken news portal....
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 6, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
The Turkish government has arrested a total of 45 co-mayors from the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP) in the past couple of weeks and has seized the administration of 35 municipalities, replacing 38 Kurdish mayors in eastern Turkey. The pro-Kurdish DBP won...
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