by TurkeyPurge | Apr 30, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Access to Wikipedia has been banned in Turkey since the Turkish government imposed a blockage over “national security and public order” on Apr 29, 2017. The online encyclopedia was first blocked as a result of “a provisional administrative order” imposed by the...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 6, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
The German foreign ministry has updated a travel warning for citizens currently holidaying or planning to vacation in Turkey, saying they could be arbitrarily imprisoned on terror charges or links to terrorist groups. According to the travel update from German Federal...
by TurkeyPurge | May 22, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that at least 48 people were detained over the past week on charges of making propaganda on social media on behalf of the Gulen movement and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Islamic State of Iraq and...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 10, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
An İstanbul court has ruled for the release of Erkan Çapkın, an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) suspect being tried in the case into the deadly March 2016 bombing in İstanbul’s famed İstiklal street, his health problems. Mehmet Öztürk had blown himself up...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 25, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Abu Hanzala, an alleged ISIL leader who declared a “holy war” against “infidels” in Turkey in 2014, has been revealed as a speaker at an Islamic conference scheduled to take place in the hearth of Turkish Capital of Ankara on February 26. According to the posters hung...
Purge-victim Turkish judge dies of cancer
HDP deputy reports another suspicious death in Turkish prison
Kurdish activist at risk of deportation to Turkey from Bosnia
Imprisoned Kurdish man who has both hands amputated released from prison
Imprisoned journalist on hunger strike in protest of detention without trial
Opposition deputy says gov’t dismissed over 10,000 civil servants last week
[BREAKING] Journalist Mehmet Gündem sent to prison
Imprisoned lecturer dies of heart attack
Turkish gov’t dismisses 4,000 more public servants in latest post-coup attempt purge
Civil engineer arrested while waiting in line for an MRI scan at a state hospital: report