by TurkeyPurge | May 15, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s interior ministry announced on Friday that 4 mayors from the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) were removed from their posts on “terror-related charges.” The ousted HDP mayors are as follows: Siirt Mayor Berivan Helen Işık, Iğdır Mayor Yaşar...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 10, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Four purge-victims who turned up in police custody after being missing since February 2019 have been sent to prison on terror charges after spending twelve days in police custody, the DW Türkçe reported. Families of the arrestees told the news agency that the lawyers...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 14, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Çare Olgun Çalışkan, a Turkish academic on Thursday was handed down a suspended sentence of one year, three months for signing a declaration in 2016 that demanded a halt to the Turkish army’s operations in predominantly Kurdish cities. The Evrensel daily reported the...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 28, 2018 | Int'l Reactions
The Mongolian Foreign Ministry on Friday issued a statement on the abduction of a Turkish national in the country earlier the same day, underlining such an unacceptable act would be “a violation of Mongolia’s sovereignty and independence” and that Mongolia would...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 13, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Various sentences including aggravated life and life in prison have been handed down to alleged coup plotters in trials taking place in Ankara. Turkey survived a military coup attempt on July 15, 2016 that killed 249 people and wounded more than a thousand others....
Turkish mob boss: Erdogan gov’t asked me to murder American pastor Andrew Brunson
Turkey jails mother of imprisoned military cadet
Turkish President calls on parliament to pass laws banning social media platforms
Purge-victim Turkish professor dies of cancer at 54
9 international human rights groups call on Turkish gov’t to release political prisoners in face of COVID-19 outbreak
U.S. House Committee Chair calls on Turkish President Erdogan to release purge-victim prisoners in face of COVID-19 outbreak
Counter-terrorism units raid house of Adana family over “financial aid” to purge-victim families
3 more opposition deputies stripped of parliamentary status in Turkey: report
Turkish woman says she was tortured with acid in police custody: report
First inmate dies from COVID-19 complications at İstanbul’s Silivri Prison: report