by TurkeyPurge | May 27, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The administrators of 5 villages in Bitlis’s Adilcevaz distrist were dismissed from their posts after their constituency voted for No in the Apr 16 presidential referendum. In the run up to the referendum, Arif Kahraman, the district governor of Bitlis’s Adilcevaz...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 19, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish police have detained a total of 38 people in İstanbul who took part in demonstrations in protest of a decision by the Turkey’s Supreme Board of Election (YSK) to consider unstamped ballots cast in a public referendum on Sunday valid. The detainees, accused of...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 18, 2017 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown
A video footage, claimed to be captured in Turkey’s western province of Izmir, reportedly shows that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) supporters physically attacked naysayers on the night of the crucial referendum on Apr 16. Citizens of Turkey cast...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 15, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
As political tension escalates ahead of a critical referendum on Sunday on a switch to an executive presidency, a worker at the Istanbul Municipality said if the constitutional amendments are approved, naysayers’ wives and daughters will be halal, or permitted, as...
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....
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