by TurkeyPurge | Jul 14, 2022 | Today in Crackdown
A new documentary, The Blue Bus, provides a comprehensive account of the 2016 coup attempt through the perspective of the military cadets who have been jailed, exiled and subjected to social isolation in the past six years in Turkey. The documentary, named after the...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 24, 2022 | Int'l Reactions, Today in Crackdown
Hundreds of activists and victims of Turkey’s post-coup crackdown gathered in front of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg on Friday to protest rights violations in Turkey. Protestors, joined by former leader of the UK’s Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 11, 2022 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish teacher who was arrested by police on June 4 for providing online tutoring services to students, was set free on June 9 after spending almost five days in custody, according to Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a pro-Kurdish deputy. The woman, named Narin Ulutepe,...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 9, 2022 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish police in four provinces have raided food banks on accusiation of giving out food basics and essential items to the families of Gulenist purge-victims. According to the mainstream Hurriyet news portal, at least 37 people were arrested in police raids. The...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 5, 2022 | Today in Crackdown
Zeynep Doğan, 28-year-old woman from Hatay province, has been sentenced to 8 years and 9 months in prison over alleged membership in the Gulen group, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt in 2018. The group denies any involvement. Doğan...
Wife of purge-victim Turkish businessman sent to prison in Gaziantep
Purge-victim Turkish judge dies of cancer
HDP deputy reports another suspicious death in Turkish prison
Kurdish activist at risk of deportation to Turkey from Bosnia
Imprisoned Kurdish man who has both hands amputated released from prison
Imprisoned journalist on hunger strike in protest of detention without trial
Opposition deputy says gov’t dismissed over 10,000 civil servants last week
[BREAKING] Journalist Mehmet Gündem sent to prison
Imprisoned lecturer dies of heart attack
Turkish gov’t dismisses 4,000 more public servants in latest post-coup attempt purge