by TurkeyPurge | Jul 22, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Zehra Dogan, the Kurdish journalist and who has been under arrest on terror charges for over a year, has said the paintings she made in prison are being seized and destroyed by the guards. “I am subjected to pressure mostly because of my paintings and drawings. Our...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 21, 2018 | Int'l Reactions
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said Turkey’s newly-drafted anti-terror law normalizes the powers that the Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government enjoyed under the State of Emergency in the aftermath of the July 15, 2016 failed coup. On July 18, 2018, the Turkish government...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 21, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish court ruled to put Isa Ozdemir, a suspected follower of the Gulen movement who was abducted in Azerbaijan by Turkish intelligence agency, has been put in pre-trial detention in Ankara. Ozdemir, wanted on accusation of membership to the Gulen movement in...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 21, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Ahmet Altan, a Turkish author who has been held in pre-trial detention in İstanbul’s Silivri prison, has shared the first photo since the beginning of his prison sentence in September 23, 2017. The two photos, which were posted on Saturday by Altan’s daughter...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 21, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The Turkish journalist Yusuf Inan’s forced return from Ukraine to Turkey is worrisome, Sergei Tomilenko, the chairman of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NSJU) said Wednesday. “For international partners of the NSJU, in particular the International and...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 21, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Workers who were fired from their jobs at İzmir’s Ege University lost their jobs because they had a baby or received medical treatment at the now-closed, Gülen-linked Şifa Hospital in İzmir, according to a report in the Evrensel daily on Friday. Some 420 subcontracted...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 20, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
An investigation has been launched into pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Batman deputies Feleknas Uca and Mehmet Rüştü Tiryaki for attending the funerals of the militants affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) earlier this month. The...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 20, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) member and businessman Kamil Acar was abducted by masked gunmen in Diyarbakır province on Thursday night according to eyewitnesses, a party statement said on Thursday. “The vehicle Acar was driving when contact with him was lost was...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 20, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The bodies of 36-year-old Hatice Akçabay and her one-year-old son were found in different spots on the Evros River, in Turkey’s northwestern Edirne province, Turkish media reported. Akçabay and her three children went missing after a boat carrying Turkish asylum...
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by TurkeyPurge | Jul 20, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Salih Zeki Yigit, a suspected follower of the Gulen movement who was abducted from Ukraine by Turkish intelligence agency, has said he feared torture in Turkey. “People say there is torture [in Turkey],” Yigit told journalist who asked him why he failed to...
