by TurkeyPurge | Mar 19, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish lawyer Burak Mengü was detained by a group of plainclothes police officers who battered him under custody, he revealed after being abandoned at a roadside in Istanbul’s Umraniye. “No one told me why and where I was being taken to,” Mengü tweeted Saturday....
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 21, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Journalist Nevşin Mengü, known for her critical stance towards the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, announced on Thursday that she was parting ways with CNN Türk, where she had once served as an evening...