by TurkeyPurge | Aug 12, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish police broke the arm of Gülsüm Elvan, the mother of Berkin Elvan, who was killed during the Gezi Park protests in 2013, while detaining her during a protest on Friday in İstanbul’s Kadıköy district in support of imprisoned educators Nuriye Gülmen and...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 24, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish police on Sunday detained 47 people including 22 women in Ankara protesting the arrest of Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, two dismissed educators who have been on a hunger strike for 137 days, Cumhuriyet reported. A video shows police breaking the arm of one...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 26, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
Human rights groups in Turkey said on Monday that Turkey is experiencing its worst period in recent times in terms of human rights abuses due to a state of emergency (OHAL) that was declared following a failed coup last summer. At a joint press conference on Monday,...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 3, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Nazlı N. Mert, who had just given birth to a baby at Lokman Hekim Hospital in Ankara’s Etlik neighborhood, was detained by police and taken to a police station with her newborn baby on Saturday as part of an investigation into Turkey’s Gülen group. According to...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 1, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Newly emerged video footage shows the moment Turkish police fired hundreds of plastic bullets at Veli Saçılık, a former political prisoner and public servant who was sacked by a government decree in the aftermath of a July 15 coup attempt in Turkey. In the 43-second...
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