Turkey Purge

Turkey jails pro-Kurdish co-mayors on terror charges: report

Semire Nergiz and Ferhat Kut, co-mayors of a Kurdish-majority town Nusaybin, have been put in pre-trial detention by a Turkish court on terror accusations, the Etha reported.   Turkey has launched a crackdown against dissent in its Kurdish-majority areas following its assault against Kurdish-controlled parts of neighboring Syria. Protests have been broken up with tear gas, […]

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Purge-victim military cadet dies of cancer weeks after being released from prison

Bilal Gülfidan, a purge-victim military cadet, died of cancer on Friday, the Askeri Öğrenci Komitesi reported. Gülfidan was among the 259 military cadets have been given aggravated life sentences on coup charges. He was held in prison for over two years until he was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in early 2019. A total of

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Man attacked for speaking Kurdish in public: deputy confirms

Ekrem Yaşlı, a 61-year-old Kurdish man, was physically assaulted for speaking Kurdish at a public hospital in Çanakkale province, the pro-Kurdish HDP deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu confirmed. “Some people still ask why there is a Kurdish problem in Turkey,” Gergerlioğlu tweeted. The Kurdish man was reportedly left bleeding from above the eye and head following

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Turkish Embassy in Phnom Penh files fraudulent request to extradite Mexican citizen of Turkish origin on coup charges: report by @nordicmonitor ||

The Turkish Embassy in Phnom Penh attempted to deceive Cambodian authorities to extradite Osman Karaca, a Mexican citizen of Turkish origin, due to his alleged ties to the Gülen group, the Nordic Monitor news website reported. The Turkish government accuses the Gülen group of orchestrating a 2016 coup attempt. The latter denies any involvement. To

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Police block Kurdish protesters inside HDP building to prevent press release

Turkish police on Monday blocked tens of Kurdish protesters inside the Diyarbakır headquarter of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in order to prevent a press release regarding the Operation Peace Spring, a military operation launched by Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) in the east of the Euphrates River in northern Syria. HDP’nin Diyarbakır’da Barış Pınarı

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Former prosecutor, TV pundit detained hours after release: report

Gültekin Avcı, a former Turkish prosecutor and TV pundit who was released pending trial on Friday, was detained again on early on Saturday morning, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. Avcı was initially detained on Sept. 18, 2015 as part of an investigation into a group of police officers and journalists who were accused of

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Unidentified gunmen attmpts to abduct Turkish teacher in Ankara: report

Three unidentified men attempted to abduct a Turkish teacher in Ankara as he was about to get into his car. The gunmen fled after the victim started shouting and managed to attract a small crowd, according to Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a human rights activist and Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy. Hayrullah Narin is a public

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Turkey detains 152 over coup, terror charges in one day

Turkish prosecutors on Tuesday ordered the detention of at least 152 people in a massive post-coup crackdown targeting followers of the Gülen movement, the Turkish Minute news portal reported. Turkey accuses the movement of orchestrating a 2016 coup attempt, although it denies any involvement. Since the failed coup some 600,000 people have been investigated on

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