by TurkeyPurge | Apr 2, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish journalist Hakan Gülseven was briefly detained on Tuesday for using a Twitter tag that translates as “not a smallest bit” in response to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s call to raise funds to aid victims of the coronavirus epidemic. “I...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 1, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
The Human Rights Association (İHD) has called on the Turkish government to release a total of 1564 inmates with fatal diseases in the face of COVID-19 outbreak in the country. The İHD released a detailed list of these prisoners who are at risk of contracting the the...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 31, 2020 | Int'l Reactions
Human Rights Watch (HRW) and several EP officialls have called on the Turkish government to release all political prisoners to stem COVID-19 spread. Nacho Sánchez Amor, the European Parliament’s standing rapporteur on Turkey, and Sergey Lagodinsky and the chair of the...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 29, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish prosecutors have launched investigations into 372 people due to their social media posts or behavior that violates prohibitions aimed at controlling the spread of the new coronavirus. As part of the investigations, three people have been arrested and three...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 29, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
More than one million people took to Twitter over the weekend to call on Turkish authorites to release purge-victim prisoners across the country to stem Covid-19. Turkey’s overcrowded, unhygienic prisons are a perfect breeding ground for the pandemic. Turkish...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 28, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey has replaced eight mayors from the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) with pro-Erdogan trustees as part of a widening crackdown on elected officials from the party. Ankara accuses the mayors of having links to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The HDP...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 28, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish government has banned visitors and volunteers to 348 prisons accorss the country due to reported coronavirus outbreaks among prisoners and staff in close quarters where disease can easily spread. The ban will last for at least four weeks. The Civil Society...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 27, 2020 | Human Tragedies, Today in Crackdown
A Turkish man who has been held in prison for over 3 years for alleged links to Gulen group, was released from prison for five hours early on Friday to see his 8-year old son, Ahmet, who has been suffering from osteoid cancer for more than a year. Natali Avazyan, a...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 27, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
The Civil Society Association for the Department of Corrections (CISST) has said that from March 20 to 24 it received complaints from 26 prisons related to COVID-19, caused by the novel coronavirus, according to the Diken news website. Turkey has not confirmed any...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 25, 2020 | Int'l Reactions
The European Parliament’s Turkey rapporteur, Nacho Sanchez Amor, has called on the Turkish government to release hundreds of imprisoned journalists, lawyers, activists and human rights defenders within the scope of a new amnesty bill drafted due to serious health...
Turkish journalist berifly detained for protesting Erdogan’s call to raise funds for coronavirus relief
İHD calls on Turkish gov’t to release 1564 vulnerable prisoners with fatal diseases in face of COVID-19 outbreak
HRW, EP officials call on Turkish gov’t to release political prisoners to stem COVID-19
Turkey investigates at least 372 social media users over coronavirus posts: report
One million tweets call on Turkish authorites to release purge-victims to stem COVID-19
Turkish gov’t replaces 8 elected Kurdish mayors with pro-Erdogan trustees
Turkish government bans visits to prisons due to Covid-19 pandemic
Purge-victim man released from prison for 5 hours to visit cancer-stricken son
Coronavirus-related complaints reported in 26 Turkish prisons: report
EP rapporteur calls on Turkey to release purge-victim journalists, civilians to stem COVID-19