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...
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