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...
by TurkeyPurge | May 1, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish police on Wednesday detained at least 84 people who wanted to stage a demonstration in İstanbul’s Taksim Square, where May Day protests have been banned since 2013, Euronews Turkish service reported. Taksim Square has for decades been symbolic for Turkey’s...