by TurkeyPurge | Aug 26, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Hayati Güngören, an advisor to Turkey’s only communist mayor Fatih Mehmet Maçoğlu, was put in pretrial arrest on accusations of membership to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and of aiding and abetting it, on Thursday. Detained along with several other...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 22, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The upcoming arts festival in Ovacik district in Turkey’s Tunceli province has been banned under post-coup emergency rule. Ovacik is the only district in Turkey where the mayor was elected under the Turkish Communist Party (TKP) ticket. “Hello friends, the 1st...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 7, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The İstanbul Governor’s Office has denied permission to a public rally scheduled to be held by the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) ahead of an upcoming referendum on a constitutional reform package. Citing that “there are not enough police officers to maintain...
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