by TurkeyPurge | Dec 22, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Two Kurdish brothers, named Seyfettin Yaşa and Metin Yaşa, were released by a Turkish court on December 18 after 30 years of imprisonment over terror charges, the Mezopotamya news portal reported. According to the report, Yaşa brothers were sentenced to life in prison...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 22, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Esra Çiçeklidağ, a former judge dismissed from her job by a government decree, entered 44th day of her arrest at a prison in Gebze, a district in Kocaeli Province. The purge victim judge is accused of alleged links to the Gulen group, which the government accuses of...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 22, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
A mother took her 4-year-old child to prison with her after being jailed over alleged links to the Gulen group, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. The group denies any involvement. According to Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 20, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
A Kurdish prisoner named Vedat Çem Erkmen took his own life on Sunday at an F Type prison in Tekirdağ province, according to Turkish authorities. Erkmen was serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole over alleged links to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 17, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
The Greek police rescued at least 10 Turkish asylum seekers, who crossed the Evros River from Turkey to Greece and were in danger of freezing to death, after the group made urgent calls for help. Following the pleas of the migrants, which circulated on social media...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 16, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Abdülrezzak Şuyur, a 56-year-old political prisoner, died of cancer in an İzmir prison on Wednesday, the ANF News reported. According to the report, Şuyur had been incarcerated since 1993 over “membership in a terrorist organization.” He was serving a life...
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