by TurkeyPurge | May 27, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
At least 20 people were detained as part of a Denizli-based investigation into the Gulen movement, media reported Monday. Police carried out raids at different locations in Denizli, Istanbul, Ankara, Bursa, Aydın, Van, Uşak and Bayburt provinces and detained the...
by TurkeyPurge | May 16, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
A former top judge who was jailed as part of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s post-coup crackdown has been sentenced to 8 years and 9 months in prison. Former Supreme Court of Appeals member Halit Kivril was convicted of membership to the Gulen movement, a broadened...
by TurkeyPurge | May 11, 2019 | Today in Crackdown, Uncategorized
For the first time since being released from Turkish custody, German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yücelspoke about the torture he experienced while being held in pretrial detention at a prison near Istanbul. Testifying before a Berlin district court on Friday, Yücel spoke...
by TurkeyPurge | May 11, 2019 | Int'l Reactions
Scores of Turkish asylum seekers have been pushed back — sometimes violently — from Greece in the last three weeks, lawyers and family members told Euronews. Witnesses claim various groups of masked men in military uniform, as well as those in plain clothes...
by TurkeyPurge | May 3, 2019 | Human Tragedies, Today in Crackdown
Ebubekir Altay, a 34-year-old biology teacher from Turkey who sought refuge in Argentina in the face of the President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s post-coup crackdown, passed away following a traffic accident. Altay picked up ice-cream from a store in Buenos Aires with his...
9-year-old drowns in Maritsa River in attempt to escape Turkey’s post-coup crackdown
Turkish parliament expels pro-Kurdish MP Gergerlioğlu over “terror” charges
Purge-victim police chief found dead in a quarantine cell in Turkish prison
Turkish mob boss: Erdogan gov’t asked me to murder American pastor Andrew Brunson
Turkey jails mother of imprisoned military cadet
Turkish President calls on parliament to pass laws banning social media platforms
Purge-victim Turkish professor dies of cancer at 54
9 international human rights groups call on Turkish gov’t to release political prisoners in face of COVID-19 outbreak
U.S. House Committee Chair calls on Turkish President Erdogan to release purge-victim prisoners in face of COVID-19 outbreak
Counter-terrorism units raid house of Adana family over “financial aid” to purge-victim families