by TurkeyPurge | Feb 3, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Pınar Türk, İstanbul district head for the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP), has been put in pre-trial detention by an İstanbul court, the Birgün daily reported on Friday. According to the report, Türk was jailed distributing leaflets lambasting a recent state...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 22, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Cicek Otlu, the chairman of the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) was arrested on accusations of membership to a terrorist organization on Tuesday. Otlu had been detained as part of a Tunceli-based investigation in Ankara on Monday. During her appearance before...