by TurkeyPurge | Sep 28, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Pro-government journalist Ahmet Kekec said Thursday that Turkey’s intelligence agency (MIT) should abduct Can Dundar, a critical journalist who has been in exile in Germany for some time now. In his column on Star daily, Kekec called Dundar traitor and defied the...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 16, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish police have arrested another German citizen, a German foreign ministry source said on Thursday, and public broadcaster ARD said the man had been accused of “terrorist propaganda” after criticizing the Turkish government, led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan,...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 6, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The German Foreign Ministry has announced that 54 German citizen were denied entry to Turkish territory in the first seven months of the year, Deutsche Welle Turkish service reported on Monday. The figure was 95 for all of last year, according to the ministry’s answer...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 10, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A total of 4,329 Turkish citizens applied for asylum in Germany in the first six months of this year, according to the country’s Interior Ministry, Deutsche Welle Turkish service reported on Tuesday. The number of applicants was 3,206 in the same period last year....
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 7, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Bülent Taş, a Turkish-German humor writer and theater director, was deported from Turkey after he was kept in police custody for two days on the grounds that he looked “suspicious,” the artigercek news website reported on Friday. Taşkın, who travelled to İzmir for a...