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by TurkeyPurge | Feb 11, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Yusuf Ozan, a presenter for the pro-government Akit TV, on Sunday targeted the Cumhuriyet daily over a story it ran on the Afrin operation in Syria, saying Cumhuriyet journalists deserve to be executed. Commenting on a Cumhuriyet report about 11 Turkish soldiers...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 31, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
With a fortnight to go until Turkey’s presidential referendum, political atmosphere has so polarized that a yes campaigner shot dead a perceived naysayer with a pump-rifle after swearing at him. According to Gazete Manifesto online news outlet, 44-year-old V.Ç....
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 18, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
The daughter of former Bursa public prosecutor Seyfettin Yiğit, who allegedly committed suicide in a prison bathroom on Friday morning after he was put behind bars over Gülen movement ties, said on Saturday that his father was murdered, refusing claims that his father...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 14, 2016 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses
A member of Turkey’s Human Rights Association (İHD), lawyer Gülseren Yoleri, has said there is torture in Turkey’s detention centers and that torture devices that were used during coup periods in the past have been put to use again during emergency rule, the...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 8, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
A huge cleansing of Turkey’s state and other institutions has continued on Wednesday as people from all walks of life find themselves being hunted down and taken into custody. At least 159 people were arrested, while 94 others were detained over the past 24 hours,...
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