by TurkeyPurge | Nov 29, 2018 | Anti-Gulen, Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown
Pro-gov’t journalist calls for killing of Turkish businessman and individuals like him who he accused of being top Gulenists. Pro-government Turkish journalist Emre Erciş has called on Turkey’s intelligence agency to abduct or exterminate critical businessman Akın...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 6, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Former speechwriter of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and current ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) deputy Aydın Ünal on Monday threatened Turkish journalists in exile with extrajudicial killings, in his column published in the pro-Erdoğan Yeni...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 28, 2016 | Anti-Kurdish, Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Hüda Kaya claimed in a parliamentary commission that an imam in İstanbul called on people to take up arms against the HDP and also approved the killing of Kurds, calling them infidels. Speaking at the Constitution...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 2, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
A 46-year-old police officer in Hatay province shot himself dead after being targeted in the Turkish government’s post-coup witch hunt. Hasan Hüseyin Can was among tens of thousands of state workers who were suspended as part of an investigation into the Gülen...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 14, 2016 | Hate Crime
A police officer shot and killed the Justice and Development Party’s (AK Party) Şakran branch head on Tuesday, after the man accused him of being a sympathizer of Turkish Scholar Fethullah Gülen. According to Turkish media, the officer, identified by...
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