by TurkeyPurge | Jun 23, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
The United Nations’ Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has called on Turkish government to compensate a businessman who spent some 3 months in prison over his alleged links to the Gulen movement. WGAD works under UN Human Rights Council. Accused of financial...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 23, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
“I am in jail not because I am a criminal. I am in jail because the criminals’ rule of law is in power,” Ahmet Altan, Turkish journalist and novelist who has been under arrest over coup charges since Sept 23, 2016, said during a court appearance on Thursday. Altan...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 23, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s Education Minister İsmet Yılmaz said nearly 33,000 teachers have been dismissed from their jobs as a result of anti-coup investigations so far. “Turkey has never experienced such a period. Due to and as a result of this coup, nearly 33,000 teachers were...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 23, 2017 | Human Tragedies
The 28-year-old Nurhayat Yildiz miscarried her twins in prison and the dead bodies of her babies were not returned to any of her family members. Arrested following her detention on Aug 29, 2016 over ByLock mobile app, Yildiz lost her twins in 19th week of her...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 22, 2017 | Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown
Emrullah Kavuz, a local member of the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AK Party) has threatened, along with a group of men, the main opposition Republican Peoples’ Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu. In a video clip widely shared on social media on June 21,...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 22, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown
Murat Okumus, a 40-year-old accountant who was a manager at the government-closed Sifa University Hospital in Izmir, was abducted, marking second forced disappearance in a week. “MY SON WAS ABDUCTED! I have failed to get a satisfactory answer from the institutions I...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 22, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Republican Peoples’ Party’s (CHP) local members in Rize were attacked by a group of government supporters during small-scale Justice March. Main opposition CHP, last week, kicked off Justice March, a 250-mile walk between Ankara and Istanbul, to protest the...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 22, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Six academics including a rector were detained at Namık Kemal University in Tekirdağ due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, which is accused by the government of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15. The detention decision was made for seven academics, six of...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 22, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Former deputy of the ruling AK Party Sukru Onder has been detained as part of an investigation into the Gulen Movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt. Police detained Onder in Yalova, on Thursday. Şahin served as AK Party...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 22, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
German prosecutors have filed espionage charges against a Turkish national, identified as Mehmet Fatih S., for spying on Kurdish expats at Turkey’s request. Federal prosecutors said on Wednesday that 32-year-old Mehmet Fatih S. had worked for Turkish intelligence...
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