by TurkeyPurge | May 29, 2019 | Today in Crackdown, Torture
A report released by the Foundation for Society and Legal Studies (TOHAV) has claimed that some of the people who were detained last week in Halfeti in southeastern Şanlıurfa province are being exposed to further torture for revealing their ill treatment, the Artı...
by TurkeyPurge | May 22, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Zeynep Sipçik, former co-mayor of Mardin’s Dargeçit district, has been sentenced to 13 years in jail. Under arrest since March, 2016, Dipcik was convicted of membership to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), media reported Tuesday. Dipcik was the...
by TurkeyPurge | May 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
A Sirnak man, named Recep Argan, committed suicide after he lost his his job at the government seized Beytüşşebap Municipality, according to media on Saturday. Argan jumped into the Habur Creek on Friday and his body has yet to be retrieved, media said. The father of...
by TurkeyPurge | May 11, 2019 | Int'l Reactions, Today in Crackdown
A total of 51 people are being kept in a cell in Diyarbakir prison that is meant for only 12 people, Ayşe Çelik, a Kurdish teacher who was released from prison yesterday, has revealed. Turkey’s Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday that the imprisonment of Kurdish...
by TurkeyPurge | May 11, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Tuna Altınel, a mathematics professor at France’s Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University., was arrested on terrorism charges in Turkey’s Balikesir. Media reported May 11 that Altinel stopped by a police station in Balikesir, seeking to get information about a...
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