by TurkeyPurge | Nov 13, 2016 | Hate Speech
Turkey’s Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekçi on Saturday likened pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputies who were arrested last week to rats coming out of a sewer. “We will not go. Come and get us, says one [HDP Co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş]. The state of the...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 11, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
As many as 40,000 people have been reported to the Ankara Police Department for being followers of the faith-based Gülen movement since a failed coup attempt on July 15, the Haber Türk daily reported on Tuesday. “There are fathers who report their sons [over Gülen...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 4, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
With several top government officials urging citizens to report sympathizers of Gülen movement to law enforcement authorities, the number of people informing on suspected Gülenists to Turkey’s national intelligence (MİT) service skyrocketed from some 2,000 to nearly...
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Dementia-suffering Kurdish politician released from prison
The head of Turkey’s doctors’ union sent to prison on terror accusations
Turkish police detain 543 people in 59 provinces over alleged Gülen links
Son of purge-victim judge jumps to his death from İstanbul’s Galata Tower
Constitutional court rejects jailed Kurdish youngster’s appeal for release
This Kurdish youngster in 6th year in Silivri prison on coup charges
14 more military cadets set free after 6 years in prison
Turkish gov’t seeks extradition of critical journalist Cevheri Güven
Purge-victim police officer dies after accident at a mining site in Gebze