by TurkeyPurge | Jan 7, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş has said during a live TV interview that it was not right to feel pity for the victims of a massive purge carried out by his party in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt in July 2016. “On behalf of this nation, I am...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 4, 2019 | Int'l Reactions
Purge Museum, “Tenkil Müzesi” in Turkish, an initiative that collects and exhibits items belonging to the victims of Turkey’s massive crackdown on the Gülen movement, opened for a ten-day run in Brussels on Friday evening. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 9, 2019 | Int'l Reactions
The parents of two children who died in a boat accident in the Aegean Sea while trying to flee Turkey to avoid an ongoing purge by the Erdogan government, were interviewed by a Turkish news portal. They said that they they waited for ten hours at sea to be rescued...
by TurkeyPurge | May 22, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Bahar A. and Vahit A., two Turkish citizens and the parent of four children, have been held in pre-trial detention for months over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which is accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a coup attempt in July 2016. According...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 8, 2019 | Human Tragedies
Mehmet Tosun, a Turkish judge who was dismissed from his job after a coup attempt on July 15, 2016, died of cancer on Thursday, according to a twitter account believed to be managed by another purged judge claimed. The claim has neither been confirmed nor denied by...