by TurkeyPurge | May 24, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
An İstanbul court has sentenced cartoonist Seyfi Şahin to one year, 15 days in prison for “insulting sacred values” in a cartoon featuring the biblical prophet Moses. The ruling was made by the Küçükçekmece 2nd Penal Court of First Instance on Thursday. In...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 21, 2017 | Hate Crime
A person jailed over his alleged links to the failed coup in last July in Turkey said during a recent hearing in Kırıkkale that he may never be a father because of the torture in jail. According to a story in Torture in Turkey website, 48 people, who were imprisoned...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 27, 2016 | Hate Speech
Turkish cleric Nurettin Yıldız demanded a fatwa from Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) suggesting that supporters of US-based Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who is accused by the Turkish government and Erdoğan of masterminding a failed coup in...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 8, 2016 | Anti-Gulen, Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses
Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) has gathered intelligence via imams from 38 countries on the activities of suspected followers of Gülen movement, according to Hürriyet Daily News. In its briefing to the parliamentary coup commission, Diyanet said...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 7, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey is going through its darkest and gloomiest days in terms of rule of law, the right to a fair trial and even the most fundamental rights and liberties, which are major benchmarks for democracy. Intellectuals, journalists, critical politicians, businesspeople,...
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