by TurkeyPurge | Dec 25, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A letter sent by a Turkish prisoner to a journalist was censored by an unprecedented method and just three sentences of the letter left behind, wrote the online news outlet Artı Gerçek. Describing the example as a black humor, the news outlet stated that this...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 13, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
People detained after the last year’s failed putsch have been subject to torture in police custody while several others were abducted outside detention facilities, according to a recent report by the Human Rights Watch (HRW). The New York-based watchdog documented...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 21, 2017 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses
The pro-government Sabah daily has established a hotline to receive tips about the the Europe-based followers of the Gülen Movement, which the President along with top state officials pinned the blame on for the July 15 coup attempt. Sabah Avrupa, the newspaper’s...
by TurkeyPurge | May 22, 2017 | Int'l Reactions, Turkey’s Exiled Journalists Speak Out
Public sector workers who were earlier dismissed from their jobs under post-coup state of emergency rule are being denied a future in Turkey as they are prevented from finding employment elsewhere and blocked from going abroad as well, Amnesty International said in a...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 17, 2017 | Hate Speech
Friends, colleagues and even spouses are reporting each other to law enforcement in Turkey as polarization in the society has intensified at the hands of the government since the July 15 coup attempt, according to UK’s Financial Times. Both President Recep Tayyip...
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