by TurkeyPurge | Jan 27, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The co-mayors of Şırnak’s Uludere district, Zeynep Üren and Yunus Ürek from the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP), were dismissed from their posts on Friday after a brief detention yesterday. The DBP co-mayors were targeted in a recent investigation that...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 8, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A monument erected in a public square in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır has been removed by an order from a trustee who was recently appointed by the government to replace the democratically elected mayor of Diyarbakır’s Kayapınar district. Former Kayapınar...