by TurkeyPurge | Jun 1, 2018 | Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown, Torture
Two villagers from Turkey’s Kurdish-majority Hakkari province have been tortured for hours by a group of soldiers while they were shepherding their sheep, according to media. Mezopotampya online news agency said Friday that Ramazan Tas and Nasır Taş, two shepherds...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 5, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A 58-year-old Samsun man, identified as H.A., who was being sought over his alleged ties to the Gulen movement was caught while he was doing gardening at his yard in the Güngendağ village. Gendarmerie raided H.A.’s home and detained him while he was planting out...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 16, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Murat Gulen, a 60-year-old villager and a relative of Fethullah Gulen was detained after he was revealed questioning the government’s narrative over the July 15, 2016 coup attempt during a video interview by the pro-government Ihlas News Agency. On Thursday, Ihlas...
by TurkeyPurge | May 27, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The administrators of 5 villages in Bitlis’s Adilcevaz distrist were dismissed from their posts after their constituency voted for No in the Apr 16 presidential referendum. In the run up to the referendum, Arif Kahraman, the district governor of Bitlis’s Adilcevaz...
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