by TurkeyPurge | Dec 14, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
At least seven Syrian Kurds who were brought to Turkey from Syria by the Turkish army, were handed 3 life sentences each for attempting to “disrupt the unity and territorial integrity of the Turkish state,” the Mezopotamya news agency reported. 4 other...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 1, 2019 | Int'l Reactions
Hundreds of people have been detained in Turkey for commenting or reporting on Turkey’s recent military offensive in northeast Syria and are facing absurd criminal charges as the government intensifies its crackdown on critical voices, said Amnesty International in a...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 19, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Semire Nergiz and Ferhat Kut, co-mayors of a Kurdish-majority town Nusaybin, have been put in pre-trial detention by a Turkish court on terror accusations, the Etha reported. Turkey has launched a crackdown against dissent in its Kurdish-majority areas following its...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 19, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Çelebi Bozbıyık, a serving military personnel, was reportedly killed in a military operation launched last week in the northeast of Syria, the Birgün daily reported. Bozbıyık was reportedly being investigated over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which is...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 14, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish police on Monday blocked tens of Kurdish protesters inside the Diyarbakır headquarter of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in order to prevent a press release regarding the Operation Peace Spring, a military operation launched by Turkish Armed...
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