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...
Turkish court bans access to Turkish editions of Deutsche Welle, VOA
Purge-victim military cadet pays visit to opposition leader days after being released from prison
Police detain 7 university students over “terrorism” accusations
Turkish court removes travel ban for former Zaman journalists
Antalya police detain YouTube journalist Arif Kocabıyık
87-year-old bedridden inmate fit to remain in prison, says Turkish Council of Forensic Medicine
İstanbul Pride: At least 361 LGBT activists detained throughout Sunday’s parade
Purge-victim law professor drowns trying to save friend at an Ontario lake
Hundreds gather in Strasbourg to demand justice for victims of Turkey’s post-coup crackdown