by TurkeyPurge | Mar 18, 2022 | Today in Crackdown
Meryem Soylu, a 79-year-old Kurdish woman living in southern Turkey, has been sentenced to six years and three months in prison over membership in an association for the people who have lost relatives in the continuing clashes between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 20, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
A Kurdish prisoner named Vedat Çem Erkmen took his own life on Sunday at an F Type prison in Tekirdağ province, according to Turkish authorities. Erkmen was serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole over alleged links to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 1, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
A nationalist assailant has killed at least seven members of a Kurdish family living in Turkey’s Central Anatolia region in an apparent hate crime, the Turkish media reported. Te lawyer representing the deceased family said that although the family was harassed...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 17, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Kurdish journalist Lokman Sezgin has been sent to prison to serve the remainder of his prison sentences handed down by Turkish courts last year. According to Mezopotamya news portal, Sezgin was arrested by the police as he was getting a Covid-19 vaccine at a hospital...
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...
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