by TurkeyPurge | Nov 24, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish court on Thursday ruled to arrest Ahmet Türk, a former deputy and also co-mayor of the Mardin Municipality, who was detained on Nov. 1 on charges of membership in a terror organization. Türk, who was recently removed from his post by the Interior Ministry,...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 1, 2016 | Int'l Reactions, Uncategorized
The detention of journalists from independent newspaper Cumhuriyet, the closure of the remaining Kurdish media outlets in the country and the jailing of two elected mayors in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir over the course of two days is evidence of a deepening...
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