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On 1 November 2014, multiple protests took place to support the Kurds of Kobanî. 5,000 people demonstrated in the Turkish town of Suruç, 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from the border. At least 15,000 marched in Turkey's largest Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakır and 1,000 protested in Istanbul, all peaceful. [16]
Some who participated in the march had been directly affected by the purges, including a former political science professor who was fired by government decree in April 2017. [7] He was one of the 1,100 academics who were investigated for signing a petition calling for an end to violence in Turkey's southeastern conflict with the Kurdish people ...
7 February – A plane is forced to land in Turkey following a bomb threat from a passenger [4] on board a flight from Kharkiv in Ukraine.; 9 February – Tear gas and water cannons used by the Erdoğan government against street protests against his government's internet restrictions.
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After the Uludere airstrike killed 34 [6] to 50 [60] Kurdish civilians, major protests followed in Turkey's predominantly Kurdish cities, [61] most notably Diyarbakir where protests turned violent and police used batons and tear gas against protesters and protesters threw stones and Molotov cocktails at police. [62]
On 26 April 2017, 1009 police officers were reported of being a secret Gulenist network within the Turkish police force, and were detained. [140] 9,100 policemen have been suspended [141] On 29 April 2017, Turkey blocked Wikipedia and dismissed 3,974 more civil servants. [28]
The campaigns of all three candidates centred mainly on the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, the peace process with PKK rebels, the Gezi Park protests and 17 December 2013 government corruption scandal. Erdoğan's campaign has been dominated by electoral rallies, beginning in Samsun on 5 July and then moving to Erzurum , mimicking Mustafa Kemal ...