Die Türkei führt Post-Putsch-Säuberungen weiter
wurden gefeuert
wurden festgenommen
wurden verhaftet
Schulen, Studentenwohnheime und Universitäten geschlossen
AkademikerInnen haben Arbeitsplätze verloren
RichterInnen und Staatsanwälte wurden entlassen
Medienhäusern wurden geschlossen
Menschliche Tragödien während der Hexenjagd in der Türkei

Gökhan Açıkkollu
Gymnasiallehrer

Mustafa Törer
Geschäftsmann

Furkan D.
12-jähriger Krebspatient

Filiz Y.
30-jährige Mutter

Hacı İsa Sezek
83-jähriger Bürger

Bilal Konakçı
Bombenräumungsexperte

Fünf minderjährige Kinder

Yavuz Bölek
Ehemaliger Polizeichef
Pressemitteilung:
“Wir sind besorgt über das Schicksal der Menschen in türkischen Gefängnissen”

Turkey police detain 33 people in “terror” operations in İstanbul: report
Turkey’s anti-terrorism police have detained at least 33 people in simultaneous raids across İstanbul for alleged links to the Gülen group, which is accused of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15, 2016. According to the state-run TRT news, as part of an...

Turkish police assault workers protesting gov’t restrictions ahead of International Workers’ Day
Newly emerged video footage shows the moment Turkish police used excessive force against a group of protestors who were protesting the government restrictions ahead of the International Workers' Day, also known as May Day. In the 35-second video, viewed hundreds of...

Imprisoned Turkish brigadier general dies of Covid-19 in prison: report
Mehmet Şükrü Eken (53), a former Turkish brigadier general, died in prison on April 19th due to COVID-19, the Sözcü daily reported. Eken was arrested after a July 2016 coup attempt in Turkey and had been held in Bafra prison since then. In 2018, he was sentenced to...

Imprisoned Turkish academic hospitalized due to severe complications from COVID-19: report
Turkish political scientist Sedat Laçiner has recently been hospitalized due to severe complications from COVID-19, Turkish media reported. Laçiner has been held in prison since July 23, 2016, and was sentenced to 9 years and 4 months in prison in September 2018 due...

Turkish parliament expels pro-Kurdish MP Gergerlioğlu over “terror” charges
Turkish parliament voted on Wednesday to revoke the parliamentarian status of Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a lawmaker from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), due to the recent approval of a prison sentence he was handed down for a tweet he posted in 2016....
Purge-victim man with one kidney asks for release from prison due to deteriorating medical condition
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...
Purge-victim Turkish judge dies of lung cancer weeks after being released from prison: CHP deputy
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...
9-year-old drowns in Maritsa River in attempt to escape Turkey’s post-coup crackdown
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...
Purge-victim Turkish professor dies of cancer at 54
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. https://twitter.com/DoktorEsenSavas/status/1277993445777444864 Savaş was a psychiatry professor at Gaziantep...
Turkish folk band member dies on 288th day of hunger strike
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...
9 international human rights groups call on Turkish gov’t to release political prisoners in face of COVID-19 outbreak
9 international human rights groups have called on governments aroud the world, NGOs and the UN to push the Turkish government to release political prisoners and "condemn its use of the pandemic to further target human rights defenders." The right groups -- Raoul...
U.S. House Committee Chair calls on Turkish President Erdogan to release purge-victim prisoners in face of COVID-19 outbreak
Eliot L. Engel, Democrat of New York and the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, wrote a letter last week calling on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to release journalists, civil society activists, and members of the political opposition "who do...
Documentary “Crossing Maritsa” is set for release on Youtube this Sunday
Crossin Maritsa, a documentary exploring the life of those who fled the post-coup purge in Turkey via illegal means, is set for release on Youtube this upcoming Sunday. "Finally!!! It was a long, difficult and touching journey we had while producing our documentary...
HRW, EP officials call on Turkish gov’t to release political prisoners to stem COVID-19
Human Rights Watch (HRW) and several EP officialls have called on the Turkish government to release all political prisoners to stem COVID-19 spread. Nacho Sánchez Amor, the European Parliament’s standing rapporteur on Turkey, and Sergey Lagodinsky and the chair of the...
EP rapporteur calls on Turkey to release purge-victim journalists, civilians to stem COVID-19
The European Parliament’s Turkey rapporteur, Nacho Sanchez Amor, has called on the Turkish government to release hundreds of imprisoned journalists, lawyers, activists and human rights defenders within the scope of a new amnesty bill drafted due to serious health...