by TurkeyPurge | Feb 9, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
A prosecutor is seeking life in prison for Osman Kavala, a Turkish businessman and a human rights activist, for “seeking to overthrow the government” through the Gezi Park protests in 2013. According to the Turkish media, two other suspects — Yiğit...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 6, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into Turkish singer Alpay after he at a concert commemorated a 13-year-old boy who was killed by the police during the Gezi Park protests of 2013, Gazete Duvar reported on Tuesday. The 84-year-old singer is now...
by TurkeyPurge | May 29, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Istanbul police have sealed off the Gezi Park in Taksim neighborhood as the fourth anniversary of the nationwide anti-government demonstrations nears. The Gezi protests began on May 31, 2013 in İstanbul as an effort to stop bulldozers from razing central Gezi Park,...
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