by TurkeyPurge | Jan 6, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Veteran journalist Aysenur Arslan was sentenced to 11 months and 20 days in prison for insulting Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The sentence was suspended. An Ankara court ruled Friday that Arslan had insulted Erdogan during her 2015 comments criticizing a government decision...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 2, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Irfan Bayar, a municipal worker in Kastamonu and a former soldier who was wounded in a clash with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in 1997, committed suicide after an investigation was launched against him for sending his kid to a private school affiliated...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 8, 2017 | Human Tragedies
Being a veteran is no relief from Turkey’s government witch hunt as M.E.Ç., a former police officer who lost his one ear and eye to clashes wıth the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) says he cannot benefit from a state-backed social security coverage to undergo...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 18, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
A Kırıkkale man who lost his both legs in a PKK attack while doing military service in the eastern province of Bingöl, has been sacked from a state institution after authorities found out that private colleges linked to Gülen Movement granted scholarship to his...