by TurkeyPurge | Dec 25, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party’s co-chair (HDP) Selahattin Demirtaş has reportedly said he would rather wear a shroud than a uniform in court appearances, in response to a new mandatory dress code measure that has been imposed by the Turkish government....
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 11, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
An indictment prepared by an İstanbul prosecutor seeks three consecutive life sentences for 30 individuals who include journalists and executives from the now-closed Zaman daily on coup charges. The Zaman daily, which was affiliated with the Gülen movement, was first...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 17, 2017 | Human Tragedies
“I go to the prosecutor’s office every week and beg them, ‘Please I need my husband.’ I tell them, ‘Please, he can come [to the police station] every day to check in, he has no place to escape, he is not even guilty.’ He can sign in every day. But I just want him...