by TurkeyPurge | Nov 3, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
54-year-old Kenan Keklik has been spending his 3 years and 45 days of prison sentence for allegedly chanting slogans on behalf of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) back in 2011. Keklik who has speech and hearing impairment since birth was arrested and put in...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 17, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Dokuz Eylül University’s Faculty of Law refused to give permission for Cem Toker, the former head of Turkey’s Liberal Democrat Party (LDP) to deliver a speech on the upcoming presidential referendum. “They did not let us talk even though we have mere 0.06 percent...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 31, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s secularist Cumhuriyet daily Editor-in-Chief Murat Sabuncu and columnist Güray Öz were detained after police raided their residences on early Monday. Police raied Sabuncu and Öz’s houses along with the house of daily’s CEO Akın Atalay and columnist Hikmet...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 12, 2016 | Anti-Gulen, Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses
In yet another of such remarks, Turkish deputy prime minister Numan Kurtulmuş targeted Gülen movement which was accused by Turkey’s government and President Tayyip Erdoğan of being behind the failed coup attempt on July 15, saying it is not different than Islamic...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 4, 2016 | Int'l Reactions
The human rights body of the Council of Europe, the Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), issued a report on Wednesday raising concerns about the increasing use of hate speech, even by senior state officials, calling it “worrying.” The report said that...
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