by TurkeyPurge | Dec 17, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish police detained 22 local politicians from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in Kırşehir province over alleged links to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Turkish media outlets reported that late on Saturday police conducted simultaneous raids on...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 14, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish police on Wednesday detained Alican Önlü, a deputy from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), on charges of links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Media reports said Önlü was detained by border police at Ankara’s Esenboga airport and...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 11, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish police detained Olivier Bertrand, a French journalist working for a Paris-based website, while reporting in southern Gaziantep province, the manager of the website reported on Friday. Head of French news website lesjours.fr announced that Bertrand was taken...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 5, 2016 | Hate Crime
Newly emerged video footage shows the moment a Turkish police use real bullets to disperse people who have taken to the streets in Şişli district of İstanbul to protest the arrest of Kurdish politicians. The 18-second video, viewed hundreds of times on YouTube and...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 4, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish police raided the Ankara home of Figen Yüksekdağ, co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), at midnight on Thursday, according to messages on Twitter posted by her adviser, Sıtkı Güngör A Turkish court had ruled last week for judicial...
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