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by TurkeyPurge | Aug 25, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Several people were detained during police intervention at a landmark, weekly gathering by Saturday Mothers. The district governor for Istanbul’s Beyoglu, earlier in the day, banned the 700th gathering of the Saturday Mothers at Galatasaray Square on Aug. 25. The...
by TurkeyPurge | May 29, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Istanbul police have sealed off the Gezi Park in Taksim neighborhood as the fourth anniversary of the nationwide anti-government demonstrations nears. The Gezi protests began on May 31, 2013 in İstanbul as an effort to stop bulldozers from razing central Gezi Park,...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 25, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
The infamous police officer who sprayed tear gas directly into the face of a female protestor, for which he received a suspended 20-month jail sentence, has joined the ranks of others who pin blame for any wrongdoing on Turkey’s new scapegoat, the Gülen movement....
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