by TurkeyPurge | Mar 23, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
About 1,800 military members have been suspended even though they showed remorse over their alleged ties to the Gulen movement, according to the Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli. “Some 1,800 people who give their statements to prosecutors as ‘confessors’ have been...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 27, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Ahmet Keser, a presenter for the pro-government Akit TV station, on Tuesday reacted to news stories that Turkey is killing civilians in the Afrin region of Syria, saying if they were to kill civilians they would start with people critical of the government living in...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 6, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Diyarbakir-based Amedspor player Deniz Naki has been given suspended prison sentence of 18 months and 22 days due to his social media posts that the judge in charge claimed to be a part of terrorist propaganda. Turkey’s broadened terror laws have targeted a football...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 3, 2017 | Anti-Kurdish, Human Rights Abuses
70-year-old Kemal Gun was fined TL 8,626 [ $2,400] for an ongoing hunger strike he started as part of his efforts to be given the dead body of his child who was killed during an air attack by Turkish miliary in Tunceli’s Dersim district on Nov 7, 2016. 11 individuals...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 25, 2017 | Torture
Turkey’s Interior Minister’s Süleyman Soylu defended brutal treatment on Abdi Abidin, Kurdish man who was alleged to have been tortured while under prison, saying he was linked to terrorist activities. “He talks about an elderly man. He says: ‘You are torturing him!’...
Purge-victim teacher attends son’s funeral in handcuffs and heavy police presence
Purge-victim police officer reinstated to job a month after his death
Purge-victim judge’s last ever pictures revealed
ODTÜ student gets 8 months in prison over tweets criticizing rector
24,256 dismissed from Turkish army since failed 2016 coup: Defense Ministry
Kurdish man released from prison after serving 30 years on terror charges
Turkish court rules to keep businessman Kavala in prison once again
2 Kurdish brothers set free after 30 years in Turkish prison: report
Former judge enters 44th day in prison with her 6-month-old baby: report
4-year-old child joins mother in prison: report