by TurkeyPurge | Jan 9, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish journalist Derya Okatan, under arrest since Dec. 25, went on hunger strike in protest of her imprisonment. Accused of being a member of a terrorist group, Okatan was detained along with 5 other journalists on Dec. 25 and arrested afterwards. Okatan was the...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 5, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Kemal Sancılı, the publisher of the now-defunct pro-Kurdish newspaper Özgür Gündem was arrested on accusation of membership to a terrorist organization. Özgür Gündem, among 14 other media outlets, was shut down in accordance with a post-coup government decree on Oct....
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 2, 2016 | Int'l Reactions
The United States should exert every effort to stop its NATO ally from becoming a dictatorship, Daniel Calingaert, the acting president of Freedom House said on Monday. The US-based think tank issued a written statement in the light of the Turkish government’s...
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