by TurkeyPurge | Jan 7, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
More than 50 former public employees committed suicide after they were removed from their offices as part of the government’s post-coup purge of state institutions, according to the Confederation of Public Employees’ Trade Unions (KESK). Over 50 people, among them...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 10, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s State Hydraulic Works (DSI), the agency responsible for national water resources has asked its employees to declare their social media accounts as well as their families’, according to Swedish media outlet Arbetet. The article, titled “Turkish Surveillance...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 3, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
İbrahim Apaydın, an engineer who was removed from his job as part of the Turkish government’s post-coup crackdown against its critics, says refugee camps abroad are filled with well-educated people hailing from Turkey. Dismissed from his job as an engineer at Istanbul...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 12, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
At least 31 former public workers were detained during a demonstration to protest their dismissals in Malatya province, on Saturday. The Confederation of Public Employees’ Trade Unions (KESK) members organized a demonstration against the government’s purge of...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 14, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A group of Confederation of Public Workers’ Unions (KESK) members who were suspended under Turkey’s post-coup emergency rule, are fined TL 227 [$61] for each day of their protest to recover their jobs. Four protestors have been gathering at Yüzüncüyıl...
Emotional reunion of 9-year-old daughter, disabled father after 20 months in Turkish prison
Dementia-suffering Kurdish politician released from prison
The head of Turkey’s doctors’ union sent to prison on terror accusations
Turkish police detain 543 people in 59 provinces over alleged Gülen links
Son of purge-victim judge jumps to his death from İstanbul’s Galata Tower
Constitutional court rejects jailed Kurdish youngster’s appeal for release
This Kurdish youngster in 6th year in Silivri prison on coup charges
14 more military cadets set free after 6 years in prison
Turkish gov’t seeks extradition of critical journalist Cevheri Güven
Purge-victim police officer dies after accident at a mining site in Gebze