by TurkeyPurge | Aug 13, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
The Turkish government has removed Medeni Özer, the co-mayor of Edremit district of Van province for having links to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), according to the Mezopotamya news portal. Özer has been replaced with a...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 22, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Gülsüm Ağaoğlu, a Kurdish politician and a member of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has been put in pre-trial detention for “insulting” President Recep Erdogan during a Newroz speech she delivered in Tekirdag. According to the İhlas...
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