by TurkeyPurge | Jan 18, 2020 | Human Tragedies
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...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 18, 2020 | Human Tragedies
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...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 16, 2020 | Human Tragedies
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...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 6, 2020 | Human Tragedies
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...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 29, 2019 | Human Tragedies
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...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 21, 2019 | Human Tragedies
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...