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by TurkeyPurge | Mar 15, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The headquarters of the Ordu-based TV 52 was red-tagged over problems with the safety standards on March 12. City police from Ordu’s central district of Altinordu raided the TV 52 and red-tagged its office on the grounds that the channel failed to meet zoning and fire...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 20, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown, Torture
Lice Municipality’s former co-mayorRezan Zuğurli was arrested along with her 1-year-old son while her mother Firuze Zuğurli was battered by police officers during the operation on Thursday. Zuğurli, the co-mayor of the Diyarbakir’s Lice Municipality until she was...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 5, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The co-mayors of the Doğubeyazıt district of Ağrı province in eastern Turkey, both of whom are from the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP), were arrested on corruption charges on Sunday. Doğubeyazıt Co-mayors Delal Tekdemir and Murat Rohat Özbay were among 10...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 18, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
The Ministry of Interior Affairs recently announced in a written statement that as part of a state of emergency in Turkey, the mayors of all local administrations are required to obtain permission from the ministry if they want to travel abroad. Turkey declared...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 12, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Police carried out multiple operations to detain at least 45 officials from pro-Kurdish Republican Peoples’ Party’s (HDP) Istanbul and Adana branches, early Monday. Istanbul police took into custody 20 HDP officials including the party’s Istanbul branch head Aysel...
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