by TurkeyPurge | Jul 13, 2017 | Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses
Demonizing remarks on Turkey’s Gulen group have reached a new level with government supporters resorting to obscenity in hate speech against its supporters. Turkish government accused the Gulen movement for masterminding the July 15, 2016 coup attempt while the latter...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 11, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
Turkey’s post-coup witch-hunt of the Gulen movement followers is tantamount to genocide, Renee Vaugeois, a Canadian human rights specialist said in a recent interview. “This a targeted war on a specific group of people in Turkey and to me that speaks to...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 14, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Garo Paylan, an Armenian-origin Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy was banned from Parliament for the next three sittings after he used the word ‘genocide’ during his speech, on Friday. “We used to account for 40 percent [of the population]. Now we are barely one...