Turkey Purge

At least 11 pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputies were detained in a major government crackdown against the opposition on Thursday night. Police raided the homes of HDP Co-chairs Figen Yüksekdağ and Selahattin Demirtaş and HDP deputy Ziya Pir, and took all three into custody. HDP’s official Twitter account in English announced that “At least […]

Turkish police raided the Ankara home of Figen Yüksekdağ, co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), at midnight on Thursday, according to messages on Twitter posted by her adviser, Sıtkı Güngör A Turkish court had ruled last week for judicial supervision and a travel ban for Figen Yüksekdağ, claiming that she represents a flight

Sakarya Public Prosecutor’s Office issued detention warrants for 36 people who attended local protests against detainment of journalists Ekrem Dumanlı and Hidayet Karaca in 2014, as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement. According to an article Turkish TV channel CnnTurk, police have managed to detain 13 of them so far while the remaining

Co-chairpersons of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ were arrested by a Turkish court on Friday afternoon after they were detained along with nine other HDP deputies following police raids in their houses in the early hours of Friday, state-run Anadolu news agency has reported. Police raided the homes and

Turkey will face another day of communication woes on Saturday as the blocking of social media and sharing websites that were shut down by the Turkish government following the arrest of nine Kurdish politicians enters its second day. At around 11:30 p.m. local time on Thursday, monitoring network Turkey Blocks, which provides a live feed

https://turkeypurge.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/4sICE_cYqfdGhkPM.mp4 Selahattin Demirtaş, co-chair of pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), was taken to Edirne Prison in northwestern Turkey after a Diyarbakır court ruled for his arrest on Friday. Demirtaş was seen landing in a police helicopter on a sports field near Edirne Prison escorted by counterterrorism police. Turkish courts on Friday arrested nine HDP deputies

Three sisters-in-law of Adil Öksüz, the prime suspect in a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, were detained in Sakarya province on Wednesday. As part of an investigation by the Sakarya Public Prosecutor’s Office into the faith-based Gülen movement, accused by the government of masterminding the failed coup, Öksüz’s sisters-in-law B.N., H.T. and M.Y.