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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