by TurkeyPurge | Apr 3, 2019 | Human Tragedies
Avşin Usanmaz, a one-year-old baby with brain cancer, has been held in a prison in Mardin province with his imprisoned mother. According to a tweet posted by Mehmet Ali Aslan, a former Turkish deputy, the baby is diagnosed with a brain tumor which causes red and...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 24, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Greece received asylum applications from a total of 236 Turkish citizens since a failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016, according to a story in Kathimerini daily on Friday. According to the daily, this number was only 12 in 2013, 41 in 2014, and 43 in 2015. In a...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 20, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A total of 966 people were detained in operations targeting the faith-based Gülen movement over the past week, according to a statement from Turkey’s Interior Ministry on Monday. The detentions and arrests took place between March 13 and 20. In operations targeting...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 16, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
İstanbul and Ankara governors have announced on Tuesday that official celebrations planned for the spring festival of Nevruz have been cancelled due to security reasons. According to Diken news portal, the governor’s offices expressed as a justification for the...
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