by TurkeyPurge | Mar 23, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish government is reportedly preparing a judicial reform package, which includes the release of thousands of prisoners to stem Covid-19. The reform package, however, isn’t expected to include political prisoners who are being held in pre-trial detention over...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 23, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The post-coup persecution of hundreds of thousands of government critics have led to a surge in the number of academics escaping Turkey. While many leave the country due to autocratic tendencies at home, the exodus of academics too accelerates the descent into the...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 17, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
The president of Turkey’s Constitutional Court said on Monday that a record number of individual petitions have been received by the court, with more than 40,000 submitted following a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15. Chief Justice Zühtü Arslan told a law congress...