by TurkeyPurge | Jul 28, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
A reputed mob boss said in an interview on July 22 that he was asked by the Turkish government to murder Andrew Brunson, an American Pastor who spent some two years in a Turkey prison over alleged terrorism and espionage-related charges “AK Party wanted to kill...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 1, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on the Turkish parliament to pass laws that ban social media platforms, including Twitter and Netflix, due to the “recent increase of immoral acts” on these platforms. The President’s address came a day after...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 23, 2020 | Int'l Reactions, Today in Crackdown
9 international human rights groups have called on governments aroud the world, NGOs and the UN to push the Turkish government to release political prisoners and “condemn its use of the pandemic to further target human rights defenders.” The right groups...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 18, 2020 | Int'l Reactions, Today in Crackdown
Eliot L. Engel, Democrat of New York and the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, wrote a letter last week calling on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to release journalists, civil society activists, and members of the political opposition “who...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 4, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Three lawmakers, Leyla Güven, Musa Farisoğulları from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Enis Berberoğlu from the Republican People’s Party’s (CHP), were stripped of their lawmaker status on Thursday, Reuters reported. Berberoğlu was convicted for...