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...
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