by TurkeyPurge | Mar 5, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Leading Kurdish folk singer Ferhat Tunc said Monday that he has left Turkey due to government pressure. “They (authorities) were not satisfied with the prison sentence; they started several new investigations and criminal cases against me with the claims of...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 26, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
An İzmir court on Tuesday sentenced Turkish folk singer Pınar Aydınlar to 10 months in prison on charges of disseminating propaganda for a terrorist organization during speeches for the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in the June 7, 2015 general election....
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