by TurkeyPurge | Dec 6, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The main opposition Republican Peoples’ Party (CHP) local branch in Ankara’s Etimesgut district has received a threatening note left at its door: You will pay for what you have done, you atheist traitors! The note was found attached at the door of the CHP’s Etimesgut...
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by TurkeyPurge | Oct 30, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Ahmet Edip Uğur, the mayor of Balıkesir, on Monday resigned in tears under mounting pressure exerted by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, saying that the pressure and threats were now extending to his family, the Diken news website reported. ”We are waiting for the...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 25, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
“I will get you arrested,” construction firm Folkart Yapı Chairman Mesut Sancak has yelled at local journalist Nivent Kurtuluş who reported on the businessman’s allegedly corrupt business ties, threatening her with tightened security measures in the aftermath of the...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 26, 2016 | Human Rights Abuses, Torture
Police officers threatened to rape a group of detainees as well as their wives after the latter group denied accusations that they were members of the Gülen movement, a lawyer told Human Rights Watch (HRW). “Police officers had accused them of being members of the...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 23, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Saturday that the government will imprison people connected to the Gülen movement unless they become informant about the activities of the movement. In yet another threat against the Gülen movement, which the government accuses...
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