by TurkeyPurge | Dec 19, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) local office in Istanbul’s Kadikoy district was raided by the police early Tuesday, according to several media outlets. Following a four-hour search of the premises for prohibited publications and photos, police detained...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 7, 2016 | Torture
Muhammed Cihad Saatçioğlu, the son of pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Hüda Kaya was hospitalized with spinal fractures after, according to many, being beaten during interrogation at a police station in İstanbul’s Kadıköy district. Saatçioğlu was...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 6, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Bengi Kömürcü and Duygu Ciniviz, two reporters for JINHA, pro-Kurdish news agency that the government closed down under post-coup emergency rule, have been detained in Istanbul. Journalists gathered at Kadıköy ferry port in order to report on a press meeting by some...
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