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
23-year-old Kurdish youngster shot to death by police after driving without license
Erhan Eser, a 23-year-old Kurdish youngster, was shot to death by the Turkish police after driving without a license, the Dokuz8 news portal reported. Eser reportedly skipped a police checkpoint in İstanbul's Beylikdüzü district on Tuesday, which reportedly ended up...
8-month pregnant woman in police custody over Gulen links
Büşra Erdoğan, an eight-month pregnant woman, has been taken into police custody in Ayvalık district over her alleged links to Turkey's Gulen group, which the government of accused of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. The group denies any involvement. According to...
Purge-victim police officer dies of cancer 9 days after release from prison
Abdulvahit Tunçay, a police officer who was dismissed from his job by the government after a coup attempt in 2016, died of cancer only nine days after being released from prison on bail. Posting a series of tweets on Thursday, Tunçay's daughter said he was denied...
63-year-old man placed in solitary confinement due to Covid-19
Üneys Özcan Öztürk, a 63-year old Turkish man, has reportedly been put in solitary confinement in Denizli T Type Prison after "contacting" with prisoners who suffer from COVID-19 symptoms. According to Bold news portal, Öztürk is blind in one eye and suffers from a...
Father of imprisoned military cadet dies of heart attack following visit to son in prison
Father of one of the military cadets who were imprisoned in the aftermath of a failed military coup in July 2016, died of heart attack hours after visiting his son in Turkey's notorious Silivri Prison in İstanbul. According to a Twitter account managed by family...
72-year-old man denied bail despite suffering from cardiac dysfunction, COVID-19 symptoms in prison: report
A 72-year-old Turkish man has repeatedly been denied bail by a court despite suffering from a series of cardiac issues, hypertension, Covid-19 symptoms as well as diabetes. According to the Bold news portal, Bekir Bayram, who lost around 40 kg in prison, has recently...
65-year-old man dies of pancreatic cancer several weeks after being released from prison
A 65-year-old jailed Turkish man who had been denied release on parole until his cancer reached stage 4, died late on Monday, the Bold news portal reported. Ahmet Kaptan had spent some three years in Balıkesir Kepsut L Type prison on membership to Turkey's Gulen...
Purge-victim police chief dies 2 years after suffering brain hemorrhage in police custody
Mehmet Harun Yılmaz, a police chief who was fired by a gov't decree after a coup attempt in July 15, 2016, has died almost two years after suffering a brain hemorrhage in police custody, the Bold news portal reported. According to the news portal, Yılmaz was detained...
Picture shows elderly woman with walking difficulty “waiting to stand trial” on terror charges
A photo posted by a Twitter user shows an elderly woman with walking difficulty waiting to stand trial at a courthouse in Turkey on membership in a terrorist organization. "I took this photo in front of 2nd High Criminal Court at 17:02. Despite her walking difficulty,...
Purge victim Turkish judge dies of covid-19
Mehmet Dölen, a Turkish judge who had spent some 26 months in prison on alleged coup charges, died of complications related to COVID-19. Dölen was initially fired from his job with a decree issued by the Turkish government after a coup attempt in July 15, 2016. He was...
Turkish intelligence reportedly abducts President of Turkish-Kyrgyz schools in Bishkek
Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) has reportedly abducted a Turkish citizen living in Kyrgyzstan as part of Erdogan government's intense crackdown on opposition figures affiliated with the Gulen group around the world. According to several Kyrgyz media...
Purge-victim man with one kidney asks for release from prison due to deteriorating medical condition
Ramazan Sarıkaya, a Turkish man with one kidney who has been held in a prison for nearly a year on coup, terror charges, wrote a letter from prison in which he asked for an immediate release due to his ever-deteriorating medical conditions. In his letter Sarıkaya said...
Purge-victim Turkish judge dies of lung cancer weeks after being released from prison: CHP deputy
Alparslan Güngör, a purge-victim Turkish judge, died of lung cancer on April 16, 2021, according to Sezgin Tanrıkulu, a deputy from Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP). Tanrıkulu said during an online Twitter broadcasting on Monday that the judge...
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...