by TurkeyPurge | Oct 13, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has said that Osman Kavala, a Turkish businessman and a human rights activist, and Selahattin Demirtaş, the former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), have been...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 4, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday reacted to the arrest of civil activist and businessman Osman Kavala by a Turkish court, calling it an example of the politicized and arbitrary nature of Turkey’s justice system. Kavala was arrested on Wednesday on charges of...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 2, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Ayşe Buğra, a history professor at Turkey’s Boğaziçi University and the wife of famed businessman Osman Kavala, has stated that the recent arrest of her husband on coup charges dashed all remaining hopes for Turkish democracy. “My husband and the chairman of...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 1, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Osman Kavala, one of Turkey’s most prominent businessmen and the chairman of İstanbul-based Anadolu Kültür Association, was put in pretrial detention after spending two weeks under police custody, early Wednesday. Detained upon his arrival to İstanbul’s Atatürk...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 28, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
Georges Dassis, president of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), said on Thursday he was disappointed by the detention of human rights activist and prominent businessman Osman Kavala in Turkey and urged his immediate release. In a letter to...
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