by TurkeyPurge | Sep 16, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Kemal Özer, a reporter and nature photographer for Evrensel daily newspaper, was put in pretrial detention on terror charges on Friday. Detained in Tunceli province as part of an investigation into the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on Sept 4, Özer was...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 27, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The chairman of main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said on Sunday that a civilian coup took place in Turkey on July 20, 2016 with the declaration of state of emergency (OHAL) in the country. Talking to fellow party members in Ankara,...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 27, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
In remarks that apparently underlined the risks of being a journalist in Turkey nowadays, Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has told a young student who wants to study journalism at university to take the risk of going to jail first....
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 25, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has accused the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) of staging its own coup by arresting writers, journalists and military officers in a crackdown launched after a failed coup...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 2, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
The main opposition party leader has said Turkey will pay a big price and an enormous amount of compensation for gross human rights violations caused by government decrees issued during a state of emergency declared after an abortive coup. Republican People’s Party...
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