by TurkeyPurge | Mar 21, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s Ministry of Interior Affairs on Thursday dismissed a local mayor from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) after he was convicted of “insulting” the Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan Hüseyin Sarı, the mayor of the Erdek district of...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 9, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Three students from Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) in Ankara were detained on Saturday on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan by carrying a placard bearing a famous caricature of him, called “Tayyipler Âlemi” (The World of Tayyips), during the...