by TurkeyPurge | Jul 16, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a lawmaker from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), officially returned to the Turkish parliament on Friday after spending a month in prison on “terror” charges. Gergerlioğlu’s parliamentarian status was revoked...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 23, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a human rights advocate and former deputy for the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has shared his first photo since the beginning of his prison sentence on April 3, 2021. His son, Salih Gergerlioğlu, posted the picture on his...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 18, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish parliament voted on Wednesday to revoke the parliamentarian status of Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a lawmaker from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), due to the recent approval of a prison sentence he was handed down for a tweet he posted in 2016....
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 23, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish government is reportedly preparing a judicial reform package, which includes the release of thousands of prisoners to stem Covid-19. The reform package, however, isn’t expected to include political prisoners who are being held in pre-trial detention over...
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