by TurkeyPurge | Jul 13, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), has been ordered by a Turkish court to pay TL 95,000 ($19,500) in non-pecuniary damages for allegedly insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who is also chairman of...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 5, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has sued main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu afterthe latter accused the president of having links to Turkey’s Gülen group. Mr. Erdoğan demands 500,000 Turkish Liras in compensation. Hüseyin...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 9, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The Turkish government has been using emergency rule to suppress the dissident groups instead of “fighting the coup plotters,” the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said. According to a report by the Hurriyet daily...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 24, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is suing the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu over “slanderous” comments about him and his family, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. According to the news portal,...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 1, 2017 | Human Tragedies
A 60-year-old Turkish man whose son has been kept in İstanbul Silivri Prison for over 10 months on coup charges, has walked a total of 309 km in 17 days as part of a “March of Justice” kicked off by the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) on June 15....
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