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by TurkeyPurge | Jun 22, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
A purge-victim Turkish woman tweeted a short video of her family walking into a river at the Greek-Turkish border in an attempt to flee Turkey via illegal means. The family is believed to have been prosecuted by the Turkish government due to alleged membership to the...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 24, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Timur Karakaş, a German-language teacher who was fired from his job after a coup attempt in July 2016, died on Friday. He was 39. According to pro-Kurdish HDP deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, upon his dismissal from his job, Karakaş had worked as a delivery man for...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 7, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Arlet Natali AVAZYAN, an Armenian-origin Turkish human rights activist, announced on Monday that she had been summoned by Turkish police to testify in a case filed against her for alleged terrorism links. “I was just called by the law enforcement agency. I was...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 18, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish high criminal court has decided to keep former pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chairperson Selahattin Demirtaş in prison during a trial in which he faces terror charges. The last hearing of Demirtaş’s trial in which he is charged with leading...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 4, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The Diyarbakır 8th High Criminal Court has sentenced Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy İdris Baluken to 16 years and eight months in jail for “membership to a terrorist organization,” “spreading terrorist propaganda” and “opposing the law on meetings...
Imprisoned law professor attends daughter’s funeral in handcuffs
Daughter of purge-victim professor dies in traffic accident: report
Turkey issues detention warrants for 29 former diplomats over Gulen links: report
Erdogan threatens to expel 10 Western ambassador over Kavala issue
Antalya police detain 72-year-old woman for protesting imprisonment of daughter with stage 4 maxillary sinus cancer
Turkish gov’t to increase prison capacity by a further 500,000 beds by 2024: deputy
Kurdish politician sentenced to 20 months in prison for spreading “terrorist propaganda”
Covid-19 patient sent to prison in a specially designed jumpsuit over Gulen links: report
Detention warrants issued for 113 people over alleged Gülen links: report
Visually impaired lawyer in prison for 275 days over Gulen links: report