by TurkeyPurge | Jul 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
Ever since the purge in Turkey started in July 2016, thousands of Turks have fled the country to different parts of the world. Among those are high-ranking Turkish diplomats, academics, police officers, teachers and many others from different walks of life. And many...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 11, 2019 | Int'l Reactions
Saturday Mothers, a group of activists and relatives seeking the whereabouts of loved ones who disappeared while in police custody in the 1990s, held a protest on Saturday with the wives of abductees who were sought in investigations into the Gülen movement. The...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 5, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Two daughters aged 13 and 14 of jailed anti-government Islamist leader Alpaslan Kuytul have been summoned by an Adana court over their participation in a march calling for their father’s release, the Gazete Duvar news website reported on Thursday. The summons was...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 5, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
As of the end of 2018, Turkish authorities had banned access to a total of 245,825 websites and URLs, with only 11,879 of them censored by court decisions while others were restricted by official orders, according to the latest report by EngelliWeb, a nongovernmental...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 5, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Mümtaz’er Türköne, a political scientist and a columnist for now-closed Zaman daily, has been pictured in handcuffs as he was going through a medical check-up at an İstanbul hospital. According to the Jailed Journos Twitter account, Türköne was forced to remain...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 19, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Canan Ş., one of the thousands of teachers who were fired by the Turkish government due to their alleged links to the Gülen movement, committed suicide in the western province of Denizli on Monday, Turkish media reported. The 40-year-old woman, who left two children...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 17, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Yavuz Bölek, a former police chief who was dismissed from profession following corruption probes implicating Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, died of colorectal cancer (CRC) on June 16, 2019. According to a twitter account, Bölek, 52, died in İzmir’s...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 11, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) has called on Turkish government to investigate the allegations of torture and other ill-treatment happening across the country. The letter came days after the Şanlıurfa Bar Association claimed that 38 people who were detained...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 11, 2019 | Human Tragedies
Hatice Erol, a 26-year-old Turkish woman who suffers from epilepsy and requires daily medication, has been held in pre-trial detention in Konya prison for over 10 months over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen movement. The movement is accused by the Turkish...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 6, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into Turkish singer Alpay after he at a concert commemorated a 13-year-old boy who was killed by the police during the Gezi Park protests of 2013, Gazete Duvar reported on Tuesday. The 84-year-old singer is now...
Turkey’s Saturday Mothers holds protest with wives of abducted Gülenists
13, 14 year-old daughters of critical Muslim preacher under investigation for marching to support their father
Turkey censors more than 245,000 websites since 2014, including Turkeypurge.com
Purge-victim political scientist Mumtazer Türköne seen in handcuffs during a medical check-up at Turkish hospital
Purge-victim Denizli teacher commits suicide
Purge-victim police chief dies of cancer in İzmir prison: report
OMCT calls on Turkish gov’t to investigate ‘credible’ torture allegations ‘across the country’
26-year-old epilepsy patient held in Konya prison for months on coup charges: report
Iconic Turkish singer under investigation for dedicating song to 13-year-old Gezi Park victim