by TurkeyPurge | Mar 4, 2020 | Human Tragedies
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...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 9, 2020 | Human Tragedies
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...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 2, 2020 | Human Tragedies
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...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 30, 2020 | Human Tragedies
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...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 26, 2020 | Human Tragedies
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...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 25, 2020 | Human Tragedies
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...
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