“Turkey Purge” watch group keeps finger on crackdown pulse
by Ana Ribeiro
The hashtag #TurkeyPurge continues to trend internationally five months after the attempted coup in Turkey. One watch group with an online presence actually calls itself "Turkey Purge", dedicating its work to monitoring and exposing threats and human rights abuses reported in the country.
The "TurkeyPurge" group is the first item to come up under the hashtag #TurkeyPurge active on Twitter. Screenshot from Twitter, 14 December 2016
The crackdown against Turkey's journalists, educators and others has been extended under the "state of emergency" declared by the government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The first element confronting viewers on the "Turkey…
