by TurkeyPurge | Jun 9, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Banners and election campaign materials of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) have been covered with Turkish flag in Van’s Gurpinar district upon an order by the city’s governor Osman Doğramacı. Doğramacı also holds the mayor’s office as the Turkish...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 23, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Orcun Senyucel, a former public employee who was dismissed from his job at the Competition Authority in 2016 has been abducted by an unknown group of people, according to his parent. “My son Orçun SENYÜCEL who was dismissed with a post-coup government decree in 2016...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 7, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A Gaziantep man, identified as Ali Ö., was rounded up by police who carried out operation to a notary’s office as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement. State-run Anadolu news agency reported Jan 5 that Ali Ö, sought over Gülen links in a Van-based probe,...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 10, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
At least 22 people in the eastern province of Van were detained as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement on Friday. The detainees included teachers, lawyers, engineers, police officers and muezzins. Muezzin is a person tasked to call people to mosque for...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 10, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Torture
Zilan Aldatmaz, co-mayor of Van’s Saray district, has gotten her ring finger broken during a debate with wardens in an Elazığ Prison where she is held over terror charges. Arrested on Nov 1, 2016 on charges of membership to a terrorist organization, Aldatmaz was...
Emotional reunion of 9-year-old daughter, disabled father after 20 months in Turkish prison
Dementia-suffering Kurdish politician released from prison
The head of Turkey’s doctors’ union sent to prison on terror accusations
Turkish police detain 543 people in 59 provinces over alleged Gülen links
Son of purge-victim judge jumps to his death from İstanbul’s Galata Tower
Constitutional court rejects jailed Kurdish youngster’s appeal for release
This Kurdish youngster in 6th year in Silivri prison on coup charges
14 more military cadets set free after 6 years in prison
Turkish gov’t seeks extradition of critical journalist Cevheri Güven
Purge-victim police officer dies after accident at a mining site in Gebze