by TurkeyPurge | Nov 30, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Activist and businessman Osman Kavala, who has been in pretrial detention for over a year without the start of any trial proceedings, said in a statement on Monday that he is waiting for an indictment to appear to disprove accusations that he was a financier of the...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 26, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Abdulhalim C., the deputy governor of the northwestern province of Karabük, has been put in pre trial detention over his alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, the Cumhuriyet daily reported on Sunday. Turkey experienced a military coup attempt on July 15 that killed...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 18, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
“When I read the newspapers, I sometimes feel frustrated like they’re only trying to save Pastor Andrew Brunson, but not us.” These words reportedly uttered by Kubra Gölge, the wife of Serkan Gölge, a 37-year-old physicist and research scientist at the National...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 6, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Can Tombul, a Turkish lawyer and a member of the Law Bureau of the Oppressed (EHB) has been put in pre-trial detention “for being a member of a terror organization”. According to a statement released by the Law Bureau of the Oppressed on August 3, 2018, after...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 15, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Mithat Can, a 73-year old human rights advocate and the head of Antakya branch of the Human Rights Association, has been detained by Turkish police due to his public statement critical of Turkish military operations in the Kurdish-controlled Afrin region of Syria....
Purge-victim police chief found dead in a quarantine cell in Turkish prison
Turkish mob boss: Erdogan gov’t asked me to murder American pastor Andrew Brunson
Turkey jails mother of imprisoned military cadet
Turkish President calls on parliament to pass laws banning social media platforms
Purge-victim Turkish professor dies of cancer at 54
9 international human rights groups call on Turkish gov’t to release political prisoners in face of COVID-19 outbreak
U.S. House Committee Chair calls on Turkish President Erdogan to release purge-victim prisoners in face of COVID-19 outbreak
Counter-terrorism units raid house of Adana family over “financial aid” to purge-victim families
3 more opposition deputies stripped of parliamentary status in Turkey: report
Turkish woman says she was tortured with acid in police custody: report