by TurkeyPurge | May 11, 2019 | Int'l Reactions
Scores of Turkish asylum seekers have been pushed back — sometimes violently — from Greece in the last three weeks, lawyers and family members told Euronews. Witnesses claim various groups of masked men in military uniform, as well as those in plain clothes...
by TurkeyPurge | May 3, 2019 | Human Tragedies, Today in Crackdown
Ebubekir Altay, a 34-year-old biology teacher from Turkey who sought refuge in Argentina in the face of the President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s post-coup crackdown, passed away following a traffic accident. Altay picked up ice-cream from a store in Buenos Aires with his...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 29, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
A group of Turkish political asylum seekers claims that, following their attempt to cross the Turkish border via Evros River in the northeast of Greece on Friday evening, they were pushed back after being beaten by masked men with batons. Tugba Ozkan, a journalist in...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 18, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
An Edirne man, identified as Fikret A., was arrested for helping his son-in-law escape from Turkey to Greece as an asylum seeker. State-run Anadolu news agency said Apr 13 that gendarme detained Fikret A due his allegedly suspicious behavior near Turkey-Greece border....
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 26, 2019 | Human Tragedies, Today in Crackdown
21-year-old university student Mahir Mete Kul was found dead days after the boat he used to cross Evros river between Greece and Turkey capsized on March 24. A computer science student at Istanbul’s Beykent University, Kul spent 10 months in prison on charges of...
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