by TurkeyPurge | May 20, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish court arrested Rozerin Zeri, a human rights activist of Armenian origin, due to her social media posts deemed to be “propaganda on behalf of a terrorist organization.” According to a tweet posted by Acun Karadağ, a history teacher who was fired...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 15, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that 152 people have been detained over the past week on charges of disseminating propaganda on social media on behalf of the Gülen movement, the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) or the Islamic State in Iraq and...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 25, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that 151 people have been detained over the past week on charges of disseminating propaganda on social media on behalf of the Gülen movement, the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) or the Islamic State in Iraq and...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 11, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that at least 80 people were detained over the past week on charges of making propaganda on social media on behalf of the Gulen movement and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Islamic State of Iraq and...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 14, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Mehmet Bayındır, the elected head of Sanayi neighborhood in Diyarbakır’s Bismil district for 10 years, was dismissed for using the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) Co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş as his profile picture on Facebook. Bayındır was also reported...
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Police detain 7 university students over “terrorism” accusations
Turkish court removes travel ban for former Zaman journalists
Antalya police detain YouTube journalist Arif Kocabıyık
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