by TurkeyPurge | Aug 18, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The Hatay 2nd High Criminal court has sentenced Muhammed Mahmud Derviş, 22, a Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militant who was captured by Turkish forces during an offensive in the northern Syrian town Afrin in March, to aggravated life in prison on...
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by TurkeyPurge | Feb 1, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Journalist Cem Kucuk, a staunch supporter of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has called on the government to close down the critical TV channel, KRT. “[Foreigners] in YPG ranks in Afrin fire their guns against Turkish troops. And then, this KRT TV channel host...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 23, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Sunday launched an investigation into pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputies Ayhan Bilgen and Nadir Yıldırım for tweets critical of Turkish military operations in the Kurdish-controlled Afrin region of...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 9, 2017 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses, Torture
A video that has recently emerged on social media purportedly shows a group of Turkish-speaking soldiers posing with beheaded people or allegedly outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants. Turkey Purge cannot authenticate the details regarding the newly...
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