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by TurkeyPurge | Mar 19, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
An Islamist pro-government presenter on Akit TV on Tuesday said the people expect Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, chairman of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), to be executed. Mehmet Özmen targeted the main opposition leader in a story he was presenting from...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 4, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
An İstanbul prosecutor has launched an investigation into a Turkish actress who opposed the death penalty by tweeting about the “record number of rape incidents” in the Saudi Arabian city of Medina. “If the death penalty was a solution, the lands of Medina would...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 20, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as well as the parliamentary speaker İsmail Kahraman expressed their support to any government plan to reintroduce the death penalty, on Tuesday. “We don’t want dogs in the Parliament, we want death penalty,” people chanted slogans...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 13, 2016 | Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown
Aydın Erekmen, a Turkish elementary school teacher was found to have posed with a hangman’s noose in a classroom along with his students in support of government’s plans to reintroduce death penalty. Top state officials, the President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 13, 2016 | Hate Crime
The Turkish government does not care about what “Western countries” say about the planned reinstatement of capital punishment, said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday. “I know how my nation feels about this issue [death penalty]. And therefore...
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