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[VIDEO] Wishful thinking from pro-gov’t journalist: ‘People expect execution of main opposition leader’

[VIDEO] Wishful thinking from pro-gov’t journalist: ‘People expect execution of main opposition leader’

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...
Turkish actress under investigation over ‘rapes in Medina’ tweet

Turkish actress under investigation over ‘rapes in Medina’ tweet

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...
Erdoğan, parliamentary speaker express support for death penalty

Erdoğan, parliamentary speaker express support for death penalty

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...
Teacher makes primary pupils pose with nooses in support of death penalty

Teacher makes primary pupils pose with nooses in support of death penalty

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...
Erdoğan on reintroducing death penalty: We don’t care what Europe says

Erdoğan on reintroducing death penalty: We don’t care what Europe says

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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