by TurkeyPurge | Mar 14, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
CNNTurk cuts short a live interview with the opposition mayor candidate Ekrem İmamoglu without warning to broadcast a live speech by the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. İmamoğlu, who was nominated by the Republican People’s Party (CHP) for mayor of İstanbul in...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 2, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish adversiter Hakan Aykut Nili has been put in pre-trial detention over a comment he made on social media criticizing the results of the June 24 elections in Turkey, the Cumhuriyet daily reported on Monday. “This must be the biggest fraud in political history. We...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 25, 2018 | Hate Crime
Mehmet Sıddık Durmaz, a local representative for the İYİ (Good) Party from the Karaçoban district was shot dead at a polling station in Erzurum province in a blood feud fight, his party has announced. Only a day later, his brother Savaş Durmaz was also shot dead while...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 22, 2018 | Int'l Reactions
Two European parliamentarians has been barred from entering Turkey ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday. The bans for the two parliamentarians from Germany and Sweden, European countries that are home to large ethnic Turkish communities, are...
by TurkeyPurge | May 24, 2018 | Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses
Ahmet Maranki, a professor of complementary medicine, has said during a live TV interview that a civil war would break out in Turkey if the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) does not win upcoming elections slated for June 24. Speaking on a live program on...
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