by TurkeyPurge | Mar 28, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey has replaced eight mayors from the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) with pro-Erdogan trustees as part of a widening crackdown on elected officials from the party. Ankara accuses the mayors of having links to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The HDP...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 27, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish court has arrested three district mayors in the country’s Southeast who were previously removed from office by the Interior Ministry, the Turkish media reported. Savur district Co-mayor Gülistan Öncü, Mazıdağı district Co-mayor Nalan Özaydın and Derik...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 14, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
The Turkish government has suspended pro-Kurdish mayors for Turkey’s Çaldıran and Edremit districts over the weekend, bringing the tally of suspended HDP officials elected in March to eight mayors and 56 municipal assembly members. Medeni Özer, the co-mayor of...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 16, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish TV station has reportedly refused to air an election campaign video prepared by the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) for the upcoming local elections. Upon the refusals, the party officals posted the campaign video on the party’s Twitter...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 20, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) member and businessman Kamil Acar was abducted by masked gunmen in Diyarbakır province on Thursday night according to eyewitnesses, a party statement said on Thursday. “The vehicle Acar was driving when contact with him was lost was...
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