by TurkeyPurge | Mar 18, 2021 | Human Tragedies
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...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 1, 2020 | Human Tragedies, Today in Crackdown
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. Meleğim gitti #HalukSavaş — Doç. Dr. Esen Savaş (@DoktorEsenSavas) June 30, 2020 Savaş was a...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 5, 2020 | Human Tragedies
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...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 27, 2020 | Human Tragedies, Today in Crackdown
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...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 16, 2020 | Human Tragedies
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...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 5, 2020 | Human Tragedies
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...
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