by TurkeyPurge | Mar 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
Turkish police teams used force to enter the Diyarbakır offices of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in the early hours of Saturday and detained seven party officials on a hunger strike, the Mesopotamia news agency reported. There were 10 people inside...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 26, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
At least 20 people were detained as part of an investigation into the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Monday. Police carried out operations at several locations in Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir, Diyarbakır and Bursa provinces as part of an investigation ordered...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 9, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Pro-Kurdish politician Esma Yılmaz has been denied release from pre-trial detention even though her 1-year-old daughter, kept in prison along with the mother, needs 6-month treatment at a hospital for her Asthma problem. Arrested over terror charges in Dec 2017,...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 12, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
At least 208 members of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) were detained while the party has been targeted in 57 separate attacks, most of them carried out against its offices and campaign kiosks, over the past 45 days. HDP’s intra-party law commission...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 17, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
An Ankara court on Friday sentenced Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) former deputy co-chair Aysel Tuğluk to 10 years in prison in a case in which she was tried for allegedly “being the leader of a terror organization.” According to a report by the...
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