by TurkeyPurge | Jun 24, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
M.G., a former police chief in Van province who was dismissed as part of post-coup crackdown on Gülen movement, was detained near Turkey’s Greek border in Edirne. M.G. was rounded up by gendarmerie in Abdürrahim village in Edirne’s Enez district, on Friday. While an...
by TurkeyPurge | May 19, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Hacı Asım Akgül, a trustee appointed by the government to Van’s Çatak Municipality, has removed the name of former Diyarbakır Bar Association head and human rights activist Tahir Elçi, who was killed in 2015, from a park in the district and named the park after a...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 6, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Nismiye Guler and Zeynep Turgut, two reporters for the Diyarbakir-based multilingual online news portal, Gazete Sujin were detained on Thursday. Two reporters were on way to cover an event in Van’s Tatvan district when police rounded them up. Gazete Sujin said it has...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 30, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
The Van Governor’s Office has announced that a ban has been imposed on all protest activities in the city during the month of December. A statement released by the governor’s office on Wednesday said all types of protest activities including marches, the issuing of...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 8, 2016 | Int'l Reactions
Fears that the Turkish government would capitalize on a state of emergency to silence critics who have nothing to do with a July 15 coup attempt have come true, Emma Sinclair-Webb, Turkey director of the US-based non-profit Human Rights Watch (HRW), has said. In a...
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