by TurkeyPurge | Oct 14, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
A deputy police chief, who had been held in prison for over four years, was found dead in a quarantine cell in Turkey’s Gümüşhane E Type Closed Prison. The photos taken after his death revealed the poor conditions of the prison facility. According to the Bold...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 28, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
A reputed mob boss said in an interview on July 22 that he was asked by the Turkish government to murder Andrew Brunson, an American Pastor who spent some two years in a Turkey prison over alleged terrorism and espionage-related charges “AK Party wanted to kill...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 1, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on the Turkish parliament to pass laws that ban social media platforms, including Twitter and Netflix, due to the “recent increase of immoral acts” on these platforms. The President’s address came a day after...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 1, 2020 | Human Tragedies, Today in Crackdown
Haluk Savaş, a psychiatry professor and a purge victim, died of cancer at the age of 54, his wife announced on Tuesday. “My angel’s gone,” she tweeted. Meleğim gitti #HalukSavaş — Doç. Dr. Esen Savaş (@DoktorEsenSavas) June 30, 2020 Savaş was a...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 23, 2020 | Int'l Reactions, Today in Crackdown
9 international human rights groups have called on governments aroud the world, NGOs and the UN to push the Turkish government to release political prisoners and “condemn its use of the pandemic to further target human rights defenders.” The right groups...