by TurkeyPurge | Jun 21, 2022 | Today in Crackdown
A group of Turkish soldiers were caught on camera raiding a Kurdish-majority neighborhood in southeastern Van province in an attempt to arrest a suspect. According to the video recorded by a local civilian, at least 12 soldiers are seen firing random bullets into the...
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 | Oct 18, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Aysel Tuğluk, the former deputy co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has been sentenced to 20 months in prison for disseminating the propaganda of a terrorist organization, the Mezopotamya news agency reported. The ruling was made on Friday by...
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 | Mar 2, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
The body of Zeynel Abidin Han, a Kurdish author, poet and translator who died in Berlin on Feb. 26 and was to be buried in his hometown of Muş in southeastern Turkey, was removed from a hearse upon an order from Justice and Development Party (AKP) Muş Mayor Feyat...
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