by TurkeyPurge | Jan 3, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A 5-years-old boy, identified as F.D., passed away after he was hit by a police vehicle in the Kurdish predominant province of Diyarbakir on Dec 29. The 1habervar.com online news portal reported that a minibus carrying plainclothes police officers crashed F.D. near...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 18, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The former police chief of Diyarbakir’s Sur district was detained along with his brother in Turkey’s border province of Edirne while they were reportedly on their ways for an illegal exit to Greece. According to state-run Anadolu news agency, S.A., the police chief...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 6, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Diyarbakir-based Amedspor player Deniz Naki has been given suspended prison sentence of 18 months and 22 days due to his social media posts that the judge in charge claimed to be a part of terrorist propaganda. Turkey’s broadened terror laws have targeted a football...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 14, 2017 | Human Tragedies, Today in Crackdown
A video widely shared on Twitter on Friday night shows patrol teams on streets of Diyarbakır’s Sur district forcing school kids and their parents to remove their coats and show their naked bellies to ensure they carry no explosives. In the video that apparently was...
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