by TurkeyPurge | Jul 1, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on the Turkish parliament to pass laws that ban social media platforms, including Twitter and Netflix, due to the “recent increase of immoral acts” on these platforms. The President’s address came a day after...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 2, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
The body of Zeynel Abidin Han, a Kurdish author, poet and translator who died in Berlin on Feb. 26 and was to be buried in his hometown of Muş in southeastern Turkey, was removed from a hearse upon an order from Justice and Development Party (AKP) Muş Mayor Feyat...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 13, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
The total number of Turkish citizens who have faced investigations between 2016 and 2018 on terror and coup linked charges reached 1,056,000, according to a former Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy. “Despite the destruction, declaring opponents as...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 9, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s Pegasus Airlines has fired one of its pilots after he openly criticized the Turkish government on a live TV interview following a Pegasus passenger plane skidding off the runway last Wednesday. Bahadır Altan, a former military pilot who was working for the...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 18, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Esra Uymaz Saral, a 28-year-old Turkish woman who was jailed in İzmir last week, has reportedly suffered an anxiety attack in prison after authorities denied her medication that she needs, the Bold news website reported. Esra Saral is 18-week pregnant. “She is on a...
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