by TurkeyPurge | Apr 3, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
As Turkey has been going after family members of the suspects it failed to locate, A. Öksüz, the brother of the major coup suspect Adil Öksüz, was denied request to change his surname. An assistant professor at the faculty of Turkish literature at Karabuk University,...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 26, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
With a new decree issued by the Ministry of Interior Affairs on Wednesday, the chiefs of police of 61 provinces across Turkey have changed as police chiefs in 34 provinces have been recalled to Ankara. The reshuffling affects major cities including İzmir, Diyarbakır,...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 30, 2016 | Anti-Kurdish, Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses
A primary school teacher in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır attempted to convince a Kurdish boy to have his Kurdish name, Biryar, changed to Ramazan, the Turkish version of the Arabic word Ramadan, according to a story in the Cumhuriyet daily on Thursday....