by TurkeyPurge | Jun 16, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
The European and International Federations of Journalists (EFJ-IFJ) has called on Turkish authorities to provide urgent medical care to Turkish journalist Tuncer Çetinkaya, who has been in pre-trial detention in Turkey for 11 months. “Tuncer Çetinkaya, a journalist...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 10, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A high criminal court in the southern province of Adana has applied to Turkey’s Justice Ministry demanding the revocation of the Turkish citizenship of journalist Bilal Öğütçü over terror charges on Saturday. The Adana representative of the Zaman newspaper and the...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 8, 2016 | Int'l Reactions
Fears that the Turkish government would capitalize on a state of emergency to silence critics who have nothing to do with a July 15 coup attempt have come true, Emma Sinclair-Webb, Turkey director of the US-based non-profit Human Rights Watch (HRW), has said. In a...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 7, 2016 | Torture
After he was kept behind bars for 12 days as part of an investigation into Turkish hacker group RedHack, Taylan Kulaçoğlu, an alleged member of the group, has said he was threatened with rape during his detention. Six people including Kulaçoğlu who were detained on...
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