by TurkeyPurge | May 9, 2018 | Int'l Reactions
“Protracted restrictions on the human rights to freedom of expression, assembly and association are incompatible with the conduct of a credible electoral process in Turkey,” Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the UN High commissioner for human rights, said in a statement on...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 20, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday called on the Turkish government to promptly end an ongoing state of emergency, torture and passport cancellation as well as a ban imposed on dismissed public servants from...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 18, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The wives of former police chiefs including Ömer Köse, Nazmi Ardıç and Mustafa Demirhan, who led corruption operations against the government in 2013 and an operation into the Iran-backed Tevhid-Selam network in Turkey in 2010, have been detained, the TR724 news...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 12, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Some 40 Turkish teachers fled Pakistan along with their families as Islamabad government have fallen under pressure from Turkey as part of latter’s worldwide crackdown against what it sees as the leader of the July 15, 2016 coup attempt. Turkey’s ruling Justice and...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 12, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, in an opening statement for the 36th session of the Human Rights Council, expressed concern about the deterioration of human rights in Turkey and urged the Turkish government not to renew a state...
48 public officials, including 21 active high-ranking diplomats, sent to prison over alleged terror links: report
13 women including university students sent to prison over coup, terror charges in Antalya
Purge-victim educators get 10 years in prison on “terror” charges
72-year-old businessman in solitary confinement for months in Ankara Sincan prison
Turkish authorities issue detention warrants for 53 public officials on terror, coup accusations
Imprisoned cancer patient denied release from prison once again
Turkish court jails 15 former public officials for “providing financial support” to families of imprisoned “Gulenists”
Turkish intelligence abducts Gülenists from Africa, Central Asia by paying bribes, says former intel official
17-week pregnant woman sent to Şanlıurfa prison over alleged Gulen links: report
Purge-victim Turkish businessman shares first picture from prison in 6 years