Protests break out as Turkey suspends 100s of NGOs

‘Protests have erupted in Istanbul after Turkey suspended the activities of 370 non-governmental groups, including human rights and children’s organizations, as part of its post-coup crackdown.
“The organizations are not shut down, they are being suspended. There is strong evidence that they are linked to terrorist organizations,” said Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus on Saturday.
According to the country’s Interior Ministry, 153 of the NGOs had ties to the US-based opposition cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara blames for the mid-July failed coup. Ankara says some 190 of them had ties to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), eight to Daesh, and 19 to the banned Revolutionary People’s Liberation Army-Front.’
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