by TurkeyPurge | Dec 4, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A motion has been filed against pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) 19 deputies for disseminating propaganda on behalf of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). According to media on Monday, Ankara Public Prosecutor’s Office submitted the motion to the...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 30, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
There are at least 230,735 people who were arrested and put behind bars in prisons across Turkey, according to the Justice Ministry. In response to a parliamentary question by the opposition deputy Gamze Ilgezdi, the ministry said 230,735 arrestees were recorded to be...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 13, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s Justice Ministry has announced that 50,510 people have been arrested and 169,013 have been the subject of legal proceedings on coup charges since a failed coup in Turkey on July 15, 2016. According to data released by the Justice Ministry on Thursday, there...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 15, 2016 | Anti-Gulen, Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s Justice Ministry has handed out pages of forms to its personnel asking if they know any colleague linked to terrorist organizations or the government’s perceived enemies, particularly the Gülen movement, according to a social media post. With the documents...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 10, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s Justice Ministry and the Turkish Telecommunications Authority (BTK) have been unable to respond to a question about the number of online news sites that have been censored over the past two years, according to a story on the Bianet news portal on Friday. In...
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