โกกฮัน อาชึกโคลลุ
ครูระดับมัธยม
ฮัจยีอีซา แซแซค
พลเรือนวัย 83 ปี
มุสตอฟา โทแรร
นักธุรกิจ
บิลาล โคนัคชึ
ผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้านการกำจัดระเบิด
ฟุรกอน ดี.
ผู้ป่วยโรคมะเร็งวัย 12 ปี
เด็ก 5 คน
เด็ก 5 คน
นางฟิลิซ เย.
พลเรือนวัน 30 ปี
ยาวุซ โบแลค
หัวหน้าตำรวจที่ถูกคุมขัง
9-year-old drowns in Maritsa River in attempt to escape Turkey’s post-coup crackdown
A 9-year-old Turkish girl named Nurefşan Teke was killed after a boat carrying a group of asylum seekers capsized in the Maritsa River on March 4, 2021. Nurefşan and her mother Neslihan Teke reportedly wanted to reunite with the father who reportedly fled to an...
Purge-victim Turkish professor dies of cancer at 54
Haluk Savaş, a psychiatry professor and a purge victim, died of cancer at the age of 54, his wife announced on Tuesday. "My angel's gone," she tweeted. https://twitter.com/DoktorEsenSavas/status/1277993445777444864 Savaş was a psychiatry professor at Gaziantep...
Turkish folk band member dies on 288th day of hunger strike
A member of a popular folk music group that is banned in Turkey has died on the 288th day of a hunger strike protesting the imprisonment of band members. Helin Bolek died Friday at her İstanbul home where she had been staging the hunger strike to force the Turkish...
Purge-victim man released from prison for 5 hours to visit cancer-stricken son
A Turkish man who has been held in prison for over 3 years for alleged links to Gulen group, was released from prison for five hours early on Friday to see his 8-year old son, Ahmet, who has been suffering from osteoid cancer for more than a year. Natali Avazyan, a...
52-year-old woman with stage 4 cancer held in Gaziantep prison over terror, coup charges
Fatma Aşkın, a breast cancer patient who was arrested on Feb.14 in the southeastern Turkish province of Gaziantep due to her alleged links to the Gülen movement, has experienced a spread of the disease during her one-month stay in prison and has been diagnosed with...
Maoist prisoner serving life “commits suicide” in Ankara prison, officials say
A prisoner who was serving a life sentence in Ankara's notorious Sincan prison "committed suicide" on Tuesday morning, according to Turkish authorities. Ayşe Koç, a member of the Maoist Communist Party People's Liberation Army (MKP-HKO), was arrested by Turkish...
Purge-victim mother, son depart for Germany for cancer treatment after months-long legal struggle
Zekiye Ataç, the mother of an 8-year-old cancer patient, has finally been allowed to accompany her son for treatment abroad, following an exhaustive, months-long struggle aided by human rights activists and public figures to overturn a travel ban imposed on her due to...
Turkish man sent to prison days after two consecutive eye surgeries: report
Hidayet Tosun, a Turkish man from Bolu province, was sent to prison days after he underwent two consecutive eye surgeries, pro-Kurdish HDP deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu tweeted. According to Gergerlioğlu, an oedema formed on Tosun's retina and he therefore is in an...
Woman with soft tissue tumor held in Ankara prison for 8 months: report
Seynur Özdemir, a Turkish woman from Ankara, suffers from soft tissue sarcoma, a rare type of cancer that begins in the tissues that connect, support and surround other body structures. She however has been held in Ankara's Sİncan prison since June 2019 on terror and...
Purge-victim commissioned officer commits suicide at İstanbul mosque
Adem Gürbüz, a commissioned officer who spent some five months in prison after a coup attempt in 2016, committed a suicide at a mosque in İstanbul. According to pro-Kurdish HDP deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, Gürbüz suspended from his job after the coup attempt and...
Campaign by Turkish activist raises €50,000 for purge-victim cancer patient in 24 hours
A fundraising campaign lauched by a Turkish activist raised €50,000 in less than 24 hours for Ahmet Burhan Ataç, an eight-year-old Turkish kid who went to Germany on Sunday for cancer treatment without his parents as the father is in prison and the mother is subject...
Purge-victim businessman dies of cancer weeks after being released from prison
Medenî Arifoğlu, a Turkish businessman who was sentenced to 7,5 years in prison on allegations of membership in the Gülen group, died of cancer on Saturday, according to Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a prominent human rights activist and a deputy from the pro-Kurdish...
Leaked napkin reveals 10 female teachers, 1 dentist held in degrading prison conditions in Şanlıurfa
A piece of napkin that was leaked from Turkey's Şanlıurfa prison has revealed that ten female teachers, one dentist and one housewife have been held in degrading prison conditions for months on terror and coup charges. According to the Bold news, the arrestees have...
Man with one kidney being held in prison for over 9 months despite high risk of kidney failure
Ramazan Sarıkaya, a Turkish man with one kidney, has been held in a prison for over nine months on coup, terror charges even though his remaining kidney works at around 35 percent capacity. According to pro-Kurdish HDP Deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, Sarıkaya is at an...
Purge-victim engineer denied release from prison despite stage 4 liver cancer
Abdülazim Özdemir, a 49-year-old Turkish engineer who was jailed in the aftermath of a failed coup in 2016, has been denied release from prison despite having been diagnosed with stage 4 liver cancer, according to a letter from his wife, who is also in prison, the...
High school teacher suffering from multiple heavy diseases held in prison for 20 months
Uğur Ergüler, a Turkish high school teacher who suffers from multiple heavy diseases, including hemorrhoids, chronic prostatitis and Chiari malformation, has been held in a Zonguldak prison for over 20 months on terror, coup charges. Chiari malformation is a condition...
Purge-victim Turkish judge sells oranges to make a living
A purge-victim Turkish judge is trying to rebuild his life after he was fired from his job with a government decree issued under post-coup emergency rule in 2016. However, he still can't quite move on with his life yet as he ends up getting a job as a stallholder on...
Purge-victim businessman dies of cancer days after being released from prison: report
Engin Erol, 41, a Turkish businessman who was jailed three years ago on allegations of membership in the Gülen group, died on Thursday evening in a hospital from cancer, which was not treated properly in the prison where he was held until the last stage of his...
Hepatitis B patient denied release from prison despite advanced periodontal disease
Kadri Sancar, a Hepatitis B patient, has been denied release despite having suffered advanced periodontal disease in prison. According to Mehmet Ali Aslan, a former pro-Kurdish deputy, Sancar is on the brink of suicide as he can't eat and sleep due to an advanced...
Under arrest for 25 months, Adana housewife gets 9 years in prison on terror, coup charges: report
Rabiya Duymaz, a Turkish housewife from Adana province, has been sentenced to seven years and three months over her alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, accused of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. According to a Twitter account, Duymaz, mother of three, has...
Purge-victim police officer dies during clashes with the PKK
Zekeriya Burak Altınok, one of the thousands of police officers dismissed from their jobs on terrorism charges in the aftermath of a failed coup in Turkey in July 2016, has died in a clash while performing his compulsory military service in eastern Turkey, according...
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...
Chronic cardiac patient held in prison despite serious risk of congestive heart failure: report
Adem Erdoğdu, a chronic cardiac patient who has been held in prison for over two years on terror, coup charges, is denied release despite having suffered a cardiac problem. According to a Twitter account, Erdoğdu's heart works at 20 percent capacity only and his has...
Woman put in pre-trial detention for attending pro-Gulen protest in 2015: report
Deniz Arslan, a Turkish woman and a mother of two children aged 2,5 and 5, has been sent to prison for attending a pro-Gulen protest in 2015. According to a twitter account, Arslan is scheduled to stand her first tiral on September 11, 2019. Her two kids, Yavuz and...
24-year old medical student gets 6 years in prison on coup, terror charges: deputy
Münise Kübra Çakırçoban, a fourth year medical student, has been sentenced to six years and 10 months in prison over her alleged links to Turkey's Gülen group, accused of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. According to Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a pro-Kurdish HDP...
“The services offered to babies in prison is very good. But you still complain”
A Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy has said more than 800 children who are accompanying their mothers in Turkey’s prisons are being taken good care of and are even given diapers, according to an opposition deputy. Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP)...
Mother, father put in pre-trial detention on coup charges, kids left in care of grandparents
Emine Sivri Aşkın and Cengiz Aşkın, two Turkish citizens and the parent of two children aged 5 and 10, have been held in pre-trial detention for over three months over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which is accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a...
Purge-victim Turkish woman sent back to prison a day after suffering a miscarriage: report
Hanife Çiftçi, a Turkish woman who was jailed in June when she was seven weeks pregnant due to her alleged links to the Gülen movement, lost her unborn baby and was sent back to prison from the hospital on the same day, the tr724 news website reported last week....
Jailed cancer patients released too late to get treatment: deputy
Tacettin Toprak, a Turkish citizen who had been held in Manisa prison for over three years, was too ill to treat by the time he was released from prison on Saturday, according to Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a prominent human rights activist and a deputy from the...
Another Ankara man goes missing as abduction allegations mount
Yusuf Bilge Tunç, a former civil servant who was fired from Turkey’s Defense Ministry, has been missing since Tuesday, according to Turkish deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu. Tweeting a photo of the vehicle belonging to Bilge Tunç, Tanrıkulu called on the Turkish interior...
Video shows the moments history teacher Gokhan Acikkollu died of heart attack in prison
Bold Medya has released a video showing the negligence of police officers in the death of Gökhan Açıkkollu, a purged history teacher who died of a heart attack while under detention in 2016. https://twitter.com/TurkeyPurge/status/1157406029409390592?s=20 In the video...
26-year-old epilepsy patient held in Konya prison for months on coup charges: report
Hatice Erol, a 26-year-old Turkish woman who suffers from epilepsy and requires daily medication, has been held in pre-trial detention in Konya prison for over 10 months over alleged links to Turkey's Gülen movement. The movement is accused by the Turkish government...
Former Hacettepe rector held in solitary confinement on coup, terror charges: report
Murat Tuncer, a Turkish professor and the former rector of Hacettepe University, has been held in solitary confinement for over two years at Ankara's E Type Sincan prison over alleged membership in the Gülen movement, which the Turkish government accuses of...
Purge-victim American scientist: All I want is to go back to the US and continue working for NASA
Serkan Gölge, a Turkish-American scientist imprisoned in Turkey for nearly three years on coup charges, said in an exclusive interview that he is happy to be free and now all he wants is to go back to the USA and continue working for NASA as scientist. 37-year-old...
Jailed in post-coup crackdown, 27-year-old teacher loses sanity in prison
Harun Karateke, a 27-year-old English teacher who was jailed in March 2017 due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, is suffering mental health problems in jail and is not receiving proper treatment, the Aktif Haber news website reported on Tuesday. Karateke was...
Jailed woman, newborn baby sent back to prison a day after delivery
A jailed woman named Hatice Sahnaz was sent bact to prison a day after she delivery her baby girl at a nearby hospital, media reported Saturday. Arrested on Sept 4, 2018 when she was 3-weeks pregnant, the 28-year-old woman has been behind bars in an Antalya prison...