by TurkeyPurge | Feb 9, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s Pegasus Airlines has fired one of its pilots after he openly criticized the Turkish government on a live TV interview following a Pegasus passenger plane skidding off the runway last Wednesday. Bahadır Altan, a former military pilot who was working for the...
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by TurkeyPurge | Mar 19, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish Finance and Treasury Minister Berat Albayrak, who is also the son-in-law of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said on Tuesday that a man who claimed on social media that Turkish Airlines (THY) was going bankrupt has been detained, the Gazete Duvar news website...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 27, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Following a series of detentions across Turkey of people wearing T-shirts bearing the word “Hero,” an alleged symbol of support for last year’s coup attempt, Turkish Airlines (THY) has stopped distribution of its “Heroes” kits to children on board its planes during...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 16, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish Airlines (THY) says it has fired 26 more employees over their alleged links to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15. The state-run company sacked the employees, including management, pilots and cabin crew,...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 2, 2017 | Hate Crime
Famous fashion designer Barbaros Şansal was beaten up by an angry mob who gathered at an Istanbul Airport tarmac in protest of a controversial video Şansal posted on the New Year’s Eve, late on Monday. The protesters, turned out to be employees of Turkish Ground...
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