by TurkeyPurge | Nov 25, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Cihan Vahap Elmas, a 32-year-old urban planner at the Van municipality until he was dismissed by a government decree issued under post-coup emergency rule last year, is now earning his keep by selling honey to his friends and acquaintance. Graduated from the...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 18, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
US novelist Dan Brown’s best-selling thriller, The Da Vinci Code was banned in Istanbul’s Silivri prison under Turkey’s post-coup emergency measures, according to the main opposition Republican Peoples’ Party (CHP) deputy Baris Yarkadas. “Silivri Prison’s...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 20, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
Four senior members of US’s Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), which is also known as the Helsinki Commission, has called on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to lift post-coup emergency rule, in force over a year. Chairman Sen. Roger Wicker,...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 13, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) parliamentary group deputy chairperson and Kayseri deputy Mustafa Elitaş said on Friday that emergency rule will be extended in Turkey for another three months, Turkish media reported on Friday. According to the CNN Türk...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 1, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Nobody has suffered from the post-coup emergency rule except for terrorist organisations and their members, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday. Speaking during a ceremony held for the start of the new legislative year in Parliament, Erdogan said the...