by TurkeyPurge | Dec 14, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Kurdish journalist Aziz Oruç was detained by Turkish police on December 11 in Ağrı province. According to Aziz’s wife, Hülya Oruç, he is still in police custody. Eşim Aziz Oruç tutuklanmadi malesef yanındaki değerli ve onurlu insanlar tutuklandı hala gözaltında...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 2, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Fifteen Turkish journalists were detained and access was banned to 700 online news articles in the month of August, according to a Free Journalists Initiative (ÖGİ) report, the Artı Gerçek news website reported on Monday. The report said that in parallel to an...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 27, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Mehmet Emin Bilmez, who was recently appointed by Turkey’s Interior Ministry as a trustee in place of the mayor of Van, has announced that a ban has been imposed on all protest activities in the city for the next fiveteen days. A statement released on Tuesday said all...
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