by TurkeyPurge | Aug 10, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
As part of an investigation launched after Gökhan Güçlü, a suspect on trial for an assassination attempt against President Tayyip Erdoğan on the night of a coup attempt last year, wore a “hero” T-shirt, legal action has been taken against Güçlü and his sister while...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 21, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The German daily Die Welt has documented the cases of harassment by Turkish consulate officials against certain opposition groups: The Gülen movement, Kurds and Alevites. “Reports of Turkish citizens who are harassed in the consulates are accumulating – not just...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 13, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey has fired hundreds of senior military staff serving at NATO in Europe and the United States following July’s coup attempt, documents show, broadening a purge to include some of the armed forces’ best-trained officials. In a classified military...