by TurkeyPurge | Feb 17, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yücel who was released from prison after a year on Friday has said neither his jailing nor the release is accordance with the rule of law. Under arrest since Feb 2017 as part of an investigation for publishing stories on the leaked...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 12, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish government has banned the sale of three books written about Kurds and Kurdish issue on the grounds that they display “the character of a terrorist organization,” reported Gazete Duvar online news portal on Thursday. A local court in Kahta district of Turkey’s...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 27, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said in Ankara on Thursday that the state of emergency which was declared following a failed coup attempt in July of last year will continue until the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of being behind the coup attempt,...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 27, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) announced on Thursday that the number of new applications against Turkey skyrocketed 276 percent year-on-year in 2016 while the increase largely stemmed from the government’s human rights violations in the aftermath of the...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 27, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has admitted that the “State of Emergency commission” was established to prevent the victims of post-coup violations from taking their cases to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Government decree numbered 685, one of the four...