by TurkeyPurge | Jul 26, 2018 | Int'l Reactions
President Donald Trump has announced that the United States will impose sanctions on Turkey if American pastor Andrew Brunson, who was put under house arrest after two years in pre-trial detention on Wednesday, is not fully released “immediately.”...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 10, 2018 | Int'l Reactions
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has named Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as the winner of several categories in their recognition of world leaders who have gone out of their way to attack the press and undermine the norms that support freedom of the...
by TurkeyPurge | May 17, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s security guards attacked a group of people who gathered outside the Turkish embassy residence in the US capital to protest his policies back home. Erdoğan met with US President Donald Trump in a scheduled gathering on Tuesday. During...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 9, 2016 | Hate Crime
Following the unexpected election victory of Donald J. Trump in the US, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım congratulated the president-elect on Wednesday and called on Trump to extradite Muslim cleric Fethullah Gülen, who has been living in self-imposed exile in...