by TurkeyPurge | Mar 26, 2019 | Int'l Reactions
An indictment accusing civic leader Osman Kavala and 15 others of financing and organizing mass protests in Turkey in 2013 in an attempt to overthrow the government provides no credible evidence of criminal activity, Human Rights Watch said on Monday. The defendants...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 5, 2016 | Anti-Gulen, Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown
In yet another example of scapegoating the Gülen movement for any wrongdoing in Turkey or in anywhere else in the world, the ruling Justice and Development’s (AK Party) vice chairman and Istanbul deputy Mustafa Ataş said FETÖ was responsible for harsh police reaction...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 25, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
The infamous police officer who sprayed tear gas directly into the face of a female protestor, for which he received a suspended 20-month jail sentence, has joined the ranks of others who pin blame for any wrongdoing on Turkey’s new scapegoat, the Gülen movement....