by TurkeyPurge | Nov 2, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The Ankara Governor’s Office has announced that a ban has been imposed on all protest activities and demonstrations in the city for a period of three months effective as of Nov 1. The decision was made on the intellingence that some groups were planning to organize...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 19, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Halil Aykul, a mechanical engineering professor and the former dean of the engineering faculty at Turkey’s Hitit University, was sentenced to 6 years, 10 months and 15 days in jail over terror charges. Dismissed from his faculty job over his alleged links to the Gulen...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 16, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish authorities cancelled state-issued press cards of 889 journalists, according to Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül. In response to a parliamentary question over the past week, Gül said the number of press cards cancelled in 2016 in Turkey was 889. Among the...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 22, 2017 | Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses
Turkey’s Interior Ministry has published a 54-page-long booklet on the outlawed Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C), in which it described the jailed educators who have been on hunger strike in protest of the government’s post-coup dismissals....
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 13, 2017 | Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown
At a time when the Turkish lira has fallen to fresh record lows against both the US dollar and the euro, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said the depreciation of the lira was the result of an operation targeting Turkey and there is no difference between a terrorist...
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