by TurkeyPurge | Jun 22, 2017 | Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown
Emrullah Kavuz, a local member of the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AK Party) has threatened, along with a group of men, the main opposition Republican Peoples’ Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu. In a video clip widely shared on social media on June 21,...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 24, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Aydın Engin, a veteran columnist for the Cumhuriyet daily, has reported that he received two death threats last week in İstanbul. Engin was first threatened on his way to a meeting with readers at an İstanbul bookstore on Saturday. He reported that one of three...