by TurkeyPurge | May 6, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chair Sezai Temelli’s passport was seized at the Istanbul Ataturk Airport on Saturday. Temelli arrived at the Ataturk Airport to take his Brussels-bound flight early in the morning. Airport police stopped Temelli at the...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 2, 2017 | Human Tragedies
Heval Bozay, a teaching assistant at Nevsehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University’s Archeology department until he was dismissed by a government decree issued under post-coup emergency rule last year, is now earning his keep by operating a grocery store. Graduated from the...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 16, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
At least six students were detained by Istanbul police during a demonstration held to protest the government’s post-coup purge of academics on Thursday. Some 150 people, mostly students, gathered near the Istanbul University’s Beyazıt campus and chanted slogans...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 5, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Former assistant professor at Istanbul University’s Faculty of Engineering, E.Ö. was detained along with his family in Turkey’s border town of Meriç as they were attempting to flee to Greece on Saturday. E.Ö. was an engineering professor at Istanbul University until...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 5, 2017 | Hate Crime
Ten masked Islamists have gone on a rampage, attacking İstanbul University’s faculty of arts and sciences with clubs and declaring that their “fight for Islam” will continue until the end. A 59-second video clip that was posted on social media shows men in black masks...