by TurkeyPurge | Feb 27, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The Turkish Parliament stripped pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputies Ahmet Yıldırım and İbrahim Ayhan of their parliamentary status on Tuesday. The move came after their convictions were upheld by appeal courts. Yıldırım was earlier sentenced to 14...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 21, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
At least 108,290 people were dismissed from state institutions as part of post-coup operations, according to Labor Minister Mehmet Müezzinoğlu. 94,867 people were sacked over their alleged links to the Gülen movement while the remaining 13,423 were dismissed for...