by TurkeyPurge | Sep 15, 2017 | Human Tragedies
Fatma Turan, a 44-year-old nurse who was dismissed under Turkey’s post-coup purge of state institutions, has been working at a tobacco farm to earn her family’s living. Turan was removed from her job along with her husband Özdemir Aydin, also a hospital worker, under...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 14, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Gokhan Ozbek, a freelance journalist and an outspoken critic of Turkey’s post-coup abuses, was detained for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Sept 14. “I am being detained on accusations of insulting the Presidency, in Istanbul… Goodbye…”...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 22, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The upcoming arts festival in Ovacik district in Turkey’s Tunceli province has been banned under post-coup emergency rule. Ovacik is the only district in Turkey where the mayor was elected under the Turkish Communist Party (TKP) ticket. “Hello friends, the 1st...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 5, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s Interior Ministry has released the list of 130 people who are currently abroad including Turkish-Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen and two deputies from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) who will be stripped of citizenship if they do not return to...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 29, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s popular TV wedding programs were banned as a result of a government decree issued under post-coup emergency rules on Saturday. “In radio and television broadcasting services, such programs in which people are introduced to find a friend. … cannot...
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Turkish government 1,000 more police officers over alleged links to “terrorist organizations”
10 including nice of Turkish cleric Gülen arrested while trying to enter Greece