by TurkeyPurge | Jun 6, 2021 | Human Tragedies
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...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 4, 2021 | Human Tragedies
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...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 2, 2021 | Human Tragedies
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...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 2, 2021 | Human Tragedies, Today in Crackdown
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...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 22, 2021 | Human Tragedies
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...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 21, 2021 | Human Tragedies
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...
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