by TurkeyPurge | Dec 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
A report prepared by the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) on the occasion of the Dec.10, Human Rights Day, has revealed that at least 2,000 members of the HDP have been detained in the first 11 months of 2018, 500 of whomhave been sent to jail, the...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 20, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown, Torture
Lice Municipality’s former co-mayorRezan Zuğurli was arrested along with her 1-year-old son while her mother Firuze Zuğurli was battered by police officers during the operation on Thursday. Zuğurli, the co-mayor of the Diyarbakir’s Lice Municipality until she was...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 14, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democracy Party (HDP) Deputy Caglar Demirel was given 7.5 years of prison sentence while another HDP deputy, Abdullah Zeydan was sentenced to 8 years and 1 month in jail, on Friday. Both are accused of membership to the outlawed Kurdistan Worker’s...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 2, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Serhat Çiçek, co-mayor of Siirt’s Gökçebağ district from the pro–Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP), was detained following a police raid on his house on Wednesday. Along with Çiçek, his brother, who was at home during the raid, was also detained and taken to the...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 31, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The provincial governor Cemil Sarıoğlu was appointed as a trustee to replace Burhan Kocaman, the mayor of Elazığ’s Karakoçan district who was elected on the ticket of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP). Turkey has stepped up political pressure on Kurdish...
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