by TurkeyPurge | Apr 27, 2018 | Int'l Reactions
“A chilling climate of fear is sweeping across Turkish society as the Turkish government continues to use the state of emergency to shrink the space for dissenting or alternative views,” Amnesty International said in its latest report on Turkey and urged the Turkish...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 20, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
Nobel laureate novelist Orhan Pamuk said Turkey has imprisoned so many innocent people in arbitrary ways very recently, leading him to feel guilty even when working. In an interview with the US-based Slate magazine on Aug 18, Pamuk said: “As I tell my girlfriend, all...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 7, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey is going through its darkest and gloomiest days in terms of rule of law, the right to a fair trial and even the most fundamental rights and liberties, which are major benchmarks for democracy. Intellectuals, journalists, critical politicians, businesspeople,...