by TurkeyPurge | May 27, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The administrators of 5 villages in Bitlis’s Adilcevaz distrist were dismissed from their posts after their constituency voted for No in the Apr 16 presidential referendum. In the run up to the referendum, Arif Kahraman, the district governor of Bitlis’s Adilcevaz...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 13, 2016 | Torture
Under custody for his alleged links to the Gülen movement, the head of AKTIF SEN Educators Union’s Afyon branch has been tortured so heavily that he could not be able walk for some time. Independent news portal TR724 on Wednesday published the eighth part in a series...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 20, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
A total of 6 lawyers, among them the president of Trabzon Bar Association Orhan Öngöz, were detained as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the coup attempt, on Tuesday. Police searched the homes and offices...
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