by TurkeyPurge | Mar 1, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s Flash TV, one of the leading entertainment-focused TV channels, has stopped broadcasting due to political pressure by the government and economic hardship. Established in 1992, the station is Turkey’s one of the first private television channels. Flash TV is...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
An Istanbul prosecutor ordered a “secret” investigation against family members of 19 journalists, accused of links to the Gulen movement, according to an internal correspondence within Turkish bureaucracy, revealed Monday by journalist Abdullah Bozkurt. Screenshots of...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
More than 100 people allegedly affiliated with Turkey’s Gülen group have been forcibly brought back from abroad so far, according to Deputy Foreign Minister Yavuz Selim Kiran. “Over 20 FETO schools [abroad] were taken over . The latest of such incident was in...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
The Islamic University of Rotterdam’s rector Ahmet Akgunduz has said it is allowed to slaughter members of the Gulen movement due to “their revolt against the Turkish government” on during the July 15, 2016 coup attempt. Speaking to the Islamist Akit...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
A report prepared by the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) on the occasion of the Dec.10, Human Rights Day, has revealed that at least 2,000 members of the HDP have been detained in the first 11 months of 2018, 500 of whomhave been sent to jail, the...