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...
Turkish mob boss: Erdogan gov’t asked me to murder American pastor Andrew Brunson
Turkey jails mother of imprisoned military cadet
Turkish President calls on parliament to pass laws banning social media platforms
Purge-victim Turkish professor dies of cancer at 54
9 international human rights groups call on Turkish gov’t to release political prisoners in face of COVID-19 outbreak
U.S. House Committee Chair calls on Turkish President Erdogan to release purge-victim prisoners in face of COVID-19 outbreak
Counter-terrorism units raid house of Adana family over “financial aid” to purge-victim families
3 more opposition deputies stripped of parliamentary status in Turkey: report
Turkish woman says she was tortured with acid in police custody: report
First inmate dies from COVID-19 complications at İstanbul’s Silivri Prison: report