by TurkeyPurge | Mar 5, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Leading Kurdish folk singer Ferhat Tunc said Monday that he has left Turkey due to government pressure. “They (authorities) were not satisfied with the prison sentence; they started several new investigations and criminal cases against me with the claims of...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 23, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Kurdish singer Hozan Cane was detained on her way back from pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party’s (HDP) election campaign in Edirne’s Enez district. The 47-year-old singer who has also German citizenship was stopped by police near downtown Edirne on Saturday. Media...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 2, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish composer Erdal Guney was sentenced to nearly 12 months in prison for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a 2014 single. Guney was given 11 months and 20 days in prison for insulting the President in his song, titled Babacigim [Daddy], Birgun daily...
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Kurdish man freed after 30 years in prison
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