by TurkeyPurge | May 11, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Tuna Altınel, a mathematics professor at France’s Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University., was arrested on terrorism charges in Turkey’s Balikesir. Media reported May 11 that Altinel stopped by a police station in Balikesir, seeking to get information about a...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 5, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish academic Büşra Ersanlı was sentenced to 1 years and 3 months in prison for signing signing a petition in 2016 criticizing the Turkish government for its violation of human rights and civilian casualties among the predominantly Kurdish population of eastern...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 15, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Şahap Kavcıoğlu, a deputy from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), said academics, journalists and politicians who signed a peace declaration in 2016 do not deserve to live, Gazete Duvar reported on Tuesday. Signatories of a peace declaration titled...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 19, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Nilgün Toker, the head of philosophy department at İzmir’s Ege University until she was dismissed, has said she was not even allowed to pack her belonging at her former office at the university. Toker is among 631 academics who were dismissed in the latest post-coup...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 8, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s latest post-coup government decree implicated, among others, 41 academics who signed a long-debated declaration that criticized Turkish military action in the largely Kurdish southeast. Published in early this year, the declaration accuses the government of...
9-year-old drowns in Maritsa River in attempt to escape Turkey’s post-coup crackdown
Turkish parliament expels pro-Kurdish MP Gergerlioğlu over “terror” charges
Purge-victim police chief found dead in a quarantine cell in Turkish prison
Turkish mob boss: Erdogan gov’t asked me to murder American pastor Andrew Brunson
Turkey jails mother of imprisoned military cadet
Turkish President calls on parliament to pass laws banning social media platforms
Purge-victim Turkish professor dies of cancer at 54
9 international human rights groups call on Turkish gov’t to release political prisoners in face of COVID-19 outbreak
U.S. House Committee Chair calls on Turkish President Erdogan to release purge-victim prisoners in face of COVID-19 outbreak
Counter-terrorism units raid house of Adana family over “financial aid” to purge-victim families