by TurkeyPurge | May 22, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Zeynep Sipçik, former co-mayor of Mardin’s Dargeçit district, has been sentenced to 13 years in jail. Under arrest since March, 2016, Dipcik was convicted of membership to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), media reported Tuesday. Dipcik was the...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 23, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
At least 23 people were detained after police intervened in a sit-in in front of the Batman prison, on Tuesday. The suspects were protesting the government’s lack of attention towards their jailed family members who are staging hunger strike in dozens. Peoples’...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 30, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) said at least 64 members were detained in less than 24 hours before the election. 31 of them were remanded in prison pending trial, a statement by an HDP parliamentarian noted.. The number of people detained since the...
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by TurkeyPurge | Aug 25, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Several people were detained during police intervention at a landmark, weekly gathering by Saturday Mothers. The district governor for Istanbul’s Beyoglu, earlier in the day, banned the 700th gathering of the Saturday Mothers at Galatasaray Square on Aug. 25. The...
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by TurkeyPurge | Aug 10, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Police detained four people including a former parliamentary candidate of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP), media reported Friday. Kenan Marasli was a deputy candidate on HDP tickets in Kayseri in June 24, 2018 elections. The group was detained on...
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