by TurkeyPurge | Jan 16, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
The International Institute of Islamic Thought, a privately held non-profit organization based in the USA, canceled a book talk by Ahmet Kuru, a professor of political science at San Diego State University, due to an article in which the author criticized the Turkish...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 18, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
“When I read the newspapers, I sometimes feel frustrated like they’re only trying to save Pastor Andrew Brunson, but not us.” These words reportedly uttered by Kubra Gölge, the wife of Serkan Gölge, a 37-year-old physicist and research scientist at the National...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 15, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Mustafa Destici, chairman of Turkish government ally the Grand Unity Party (BBP), has said people who are pleased with the Turkish lira’s fall against the US dollar and who are promoting a loss of faith in the lira among the public should be stripped of their Turkish...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 26, 2018 | Int'l Reactions
President Donald Trump has announced that the United States will impose sanctions on Turkey if American pastor Andrew Brunson, who was put under house arrest after two years in pre-trial detention on Wednesday, is not fully released “immediately.”...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 7, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish police on Tuesday detained at least 17 more people who allegedly sent documents to the US for the ongoing Reza Zarrab case in New York, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. According to the report police sources said three of the suspects had been...