by TurkeyPurge | Sep 6, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A man was caught on camera hurling racist insults and threatening Turkish human rights activist, Barbaros Şansal, at a restaurant in Northern Cyprus. In the video, a man wearing a white t-shirt, is heard accusing Şansal of betraying Turkey and the Turkish Republic of...
by TurkeyPurge | May 26, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
An İstanbul court has arrested Ömer Sercan İpekçioğlu, a Turkish rapper also known as Ezhel, on charges of encouraging drug use in his songs, the Hürriyet daily reported. “I am a musician. I didn’t know that songs I’ve shared on YouTube and words that I’ve used on...
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by TurkeyPurge | Sep 11, 2017 | Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses
Addressing students being sent abroad with a scholarship, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s son-in-law and Energy and Natural Resources Minister Berat Albayrak has said he would strangle supports of Gülen movement wherever he sees them, the Cumhuriyet daily reported on...
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