by TurkeyPurge | Jun 4, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Three lawmakers, Leyla Güven, Musa Farisoğulları from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Enis Berberoğlu from the Republican People’s Party’s (CHP), were stripped of their lawmaker status on Thursday, Reuters reported. Berberoğlu was convicted for...
by TurkeyPurge | May 23, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Esra Yurt, a Turkish woman who was detained as part of an investigation into Turkey’s Gulen group, said in an interview that she had her feet burned with acid in police custody at the notorious Ankara Anti-Terror Branch (TEM). Speaking to Turkish journalist...
by TurkeyPurge | May 23, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
An inmate has died from an apparent complication related to COVID-19 at Silivri Prison in istanbul, according to a statement by the İstanbul Bakırköy Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office. According to the same statement, the number of coronavirus cases in the facility has...
by TurkeyPurge | May 15, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s interior ministry announced on Friday that 4 mayors from the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) were removed from their posts on “terror-related charges.” The ousted HDP mayors are as follows: Siirt Mayor Berivan Helen Işık, Iğdır Mayor Yaşar...
by TurkeyPurge | May 13, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Çetin Çiftçi, a Turkish journalist who has been sentenced to 6 years, 3 months in prison on charges of membership in a terrorist organization, has tested positive in Ankara’s Sİncan prison. According to the Jailed Journos Twitter account, Çiftçi suffers from...
by TurkeyPurge | May 11, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
At least 191 inmates in İstanbul’s notorious Silivri Prison, have so far tested positive for COVID-19 , according to Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, an opposition member of the Turkish parliament and a rights activist. Gergerlioğlu said in a tweet late on Sunday that eight...
by TurkeyPurge | May 9, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Forty-four inmates in İstanbul’s Silivri Prison have tested positive for COVID-19, the chief public prosecutor’s office announced on Friday, the Gazete Duvar news website reported. Two of the inmates were taken to a hospital, while remainder have been quarantined...
by TurkeyPurge | May 9, 2020 | Hate Crime, Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses
Sevda Noyan, an Islamist TV commentator, said during a live TV interview that she regrets the fact that she failed to kill more people on the night of the July 15 coup attempt in 2016, adding that her family is now fully-prepared and is capable of...
by TurkeyPurge | May 7, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
A member of the left-wing Turkish band Grup Yorum has died after a total of 322 days of hunger strike protesting the government’s ill treatment of the band. Group Yorum said early Thursday that musician İbrahim Gökçek died at an İstanbul hospital. Group Yorum, known...
by TurkeyPurge | May 7, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Ahmet Burhan Ataç, an 8 year-old kid whose parents have been prosecuted over alleged Gulen links, died of cancer early on Thursday, according to Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a member of parliament and rights activist. “Ahmet left us. He left his mother, his brother...
9-year-old drowns in Maritsa River in attempt to escape Turkey’s post-coup crackdown
Turkish parliament expels pro-Kurdish MP Gergerlioğlu over “terror” charges
Purge-victim police chief found dead in a quarantine cell in Turkish prison
Turkish mob boss: Erdogan gov’t asked me to murder American pastor Andrew Brunson
Turkey jails mother of imprisoned military cadet
Turkish President calls on parliament to pass laws banning social media platforms
Purge-victim Turkish professor dies of cancer at 54
9 international human rights groups call on Turkish gov’t to release political prisoners in face of COVID-19 outbreak
U.S. House Committee Chair calls on Turkish President Erdogan to release purge-victim prisoners in face of COVID-19 outbreak
Counter-terrorism units raid house of Adana family over “financial aid” to purge-victim families