by TurkeyPurge | May 6, 2018 | Human Tragedies
Mehmet Ali Uludağ, a Turkish refugee in Germany who lost his wife to cerebral hemorrhage last week, said that his elder brother has been detained in a midnight raid back home. “My pain has been multiplied now. I have two brothers. One is Veli Uludağ who died as a...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 27, 2018 | Int'l Reactions
“A chilling climate of fear is sweeping across Turkish society as the Turkish government continues to use the state of emergency to shrink the space for dissenting or alternative views,” Amnesty International said in its latest report on Turkey and urged the Turkish...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 18, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s post-coup emergency rule was extended for another three months following general assembly meeting at the parliament on Wednesday. The extension is the seventh since the State of Emergency was first declared in the aftermath of the July 15, 2016 failed coup....
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 9, 2018 | Int'l Reactions
Members of the European Parliament have called on Turkey to lift an ongoing state of emergency declared after a failed coup in July 2016 that they say is now being used to silence dissent and opposition. “The state of emergency declared after the coup attempt of 16...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 8, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s post-coup emergency rule will be extended for another three months, according to the Deputy Prime Minister and government spokesman Bekir Bozdağ. The extension will be the sixth since the State of Emergency was first declared in the aftermath of the July 15,...