by TurkeyPurge | Dec 11, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
Human Rights Watch’s Turkey director Emma Sinclair-Webb said the government’s post-coup crackdown is aimed at establishing an empire of fear in the country. Speaking at a rights symposium in the eastern province of Diyarbakir on Monday, she said arbitrariness is the...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 15, 2016 | Human Rights Abuses, Torture
Turkish human rights lawyer Tugay Bek, under detention for the past 4 days, were battered by riot police officers when he resisted to be handcuffed behind back. According to Turkish media, Bek was taken to a hospital for medical control in Adana on Wednesday night....
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 1, 2016 | Int'l Reactions, Uncategorized
The detention of journalists from independent newspaper Cumhuriyet, the closure of the remaining Kurdish media outlets in the country and the jailing of two elected mayors in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir over the course of two days is evidence of a deepening...