by TurkeyPurge | May 16, 2019 | Int'l Reactions, Today in Crackdown
The number of people who were detained while trying to escape from Turkey to Greece in the face of a government crackdown against the suspected followers of the Gulen movement has reached to 546. Anadolu news agency reported that 546 suspected Gulenists were detained...
by TurkeyPurge | May 11, 2019 | Int'l Reactions
Scores of Turkish asylum seekers have been pushed back — sometimes violently — from Greece in the last three weeks, lawyers and family members told Euronews. Witnesses claim various groups of masked men in military uniform, as well as those in plain clothes...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 29, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
A group of Turkish political asylum seekers claims that, following their attempt to cross the Turkish border via Evros River in the northeast of Greece on Friday evening, they were pushed back after being beaten by masked men with batons. Tugba Ozkan, a journalist in...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 24, 2019 | Int'l Reactions
Turkish refugee children in Greece lend support to their jailed peers back home in a video recording, released to mark Apr 23 Children’s Day. Medya Bold online news outlet reported that a group of Turkish nationals in Greece posted the video to mark the day,...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 24, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
A nurse was detained near Turkey-Greece border where he was reportedly on his way to escape the country as asylum seeker. Media reported Apr 24 that police carried out a search on a parked car nearby a highway in Edirne’s Kesan district upon a complained and...
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