by TurkeyPurge | May 19, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Hacı Asım Akgül, a trustee appointed by the government to Van’s Çatak Municipality, has removed the name of former Diyarbakır Bar Association head and human rights activist Tahir Elçi, who was killed in 2015, from a park in the district and named the park after a...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 30, 2016 | Anti-Kurdish, Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses
A primary school teacher in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır attempted to convince a Kurdish boy to have his Kurdish name, Biryar, changed to Ramazan, the Turkish version of the Arabic word Ramadan, according to a story in the Cumhuriyet daily on Thursday....