by TurkeyPurge | Sep 3, 2019 | Human Tragedies
Deniz Arslan, a Turkish woman and a mother of two children aged 2,5 and 5, has been sent to prison for attending a pro-Gulen protest in 2015. According to a twitter account, Arslan is scheduled to stand her first tiral on September 11, 2019. Her two kids, Yavuz and...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 27, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
The body of Mücahit Yılmaz, a Kurdish man who was killled allegedly in clashes with the Turkish army in Diyarbakır on July 21, has not yet been returned to the family on the grounds that he had ties to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The body has been held in a...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 22, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Mehmet Emin Bilmez, appointed by Turkey’s Interior Ministry as a trustee in place of the mayor of Van, who was removed by the government from office, ordered the dissolution of the city council on Wednesday, the Diken news website reported. The Kurdish Peoples’...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 14, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
The Turkish government has suspended pro-Kurdish mayors for Turkey’s Çaldıran and Edremit districts over the weekend, bringing the tally of suspended HDP officials elected in March to eight mayors and 56 municipal assembly members. Medeni Özer, the co-mayor of...
by TurkeyPurge | May 12, 2019 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses
Turkish journalist and TV host Yavuz Selim Demirağ was attacked on Friday night by a group of individuals with sticks, the Diken newspaper reported. The columnist, who writes for the government-critical and ultranationalist Yeniçağ daily, was hospitalized for possible...
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