by TurkeyPurge | Apr 18, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s Supreme Election Board (YSK) on Thursday confirmed its decision to annul the election of mayors who were purged from public service by government decrees after objections from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), the Artı Gerçek news website reported. In the...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 15, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Ekrem İmamoğlu, who was elected mayor of İstanbul according to unofficial results in the March 31 local elections, has told media that managements of two Turkish football clubs, Fenerbahçe and Beşiktaş, were “threatened” by a minister and were ordered not...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 13, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
At least nine people who were elected as mayors of different Turkish provinces mostly from the ranks of the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), have been denied the mandate by the Supreme Election Board (YSK), the Mesopotamia news agency reported. Turkey’s...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 7, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Zeyyat Ceylan, the mayor-elect of Diyarbakır’s Bağlar district, has been denied the certificate of election of mayor by the Supreme Election Board (YSK). According to the Diken news portal, the Ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) mayoral candidate Hüseyin...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 5, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Oktay Candemir, a Turkey-based Kurdish journalist, has been taken into custody in Van province. According to the GazeteKarınca news portal, Candemir was detained by Van police during a police raid on Friday morning. In September 2017, he was given a prison sentence of...
Turkish journalist says Karabük police arrests 14 female university students in midnight raids
6-month pregnant jailed woman released on probation after almost 2 months in prison
Turkish Supreme Court of Appeals upholds 4-year prison time for leading opposition figure
24 former public officials detained in midnight raids for “providing financial support” to families of imprisoned “Gulenists”
6-month pregnant jailed woman hospitalized due to heavy breathing difficulty
Turkish court arrests military cadet for third time in 6 months
Retired engineer with Parkinson’s disease in prison for almost a year over coup, terror charges
Turkish pop singer deletes solidarity tweet for jailed women upon being criticized by pro-gov’t media
Turkish court jails 80-year-old couple on terror charges
Erdogan-critic Turkish cleric once again sent to prison on “terror” charges