by TurkeyPurge | May 27, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The administrators of 5 villages in Bitlis’s Adilcevaz distrist were dismissed from their posts after their constituency voted for No in the Apr 16 presidential referendum. In the run up to the referendum, Arif Kahraman, the district governor of Bitlis’s Adilcevaz...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 21, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Twenty-one years old university student Ali Gül was arrested days after a video he appeared in as part of a No campaign went viral in the run up to the presidential referendum. The referendum, scheduled to take place on April 16, is set to introduce a shift from...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
Republican People’s Party (CHP) Party Assembly member legist Sera Kadıgil has been taken into custody in Çağlayan Courthouse. In his interview to bianet, CHP İstanbul MP Barış Yarkadaş said: “Sera Kadıgil went to Çağlayan Courthouse to testify as part of another case....
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 22, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
A group of people from the İstanbul branch of the Grey Wolves (Ülkü Ocakları), a nationalist youth movement affiliated with the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), on Friday stoned a building in İstanbul’s Bağcılar district where main opposition Republican People’s...
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