76-year-old ex-intelligence officer kept in solitary confinement for 4 years over alleged Gulen links: report
Enver Altaylı, (76), a former member of the Turkish Intelligence agency (MIT), has been kept in solitary confinement since early 2018 over alleged links to the Gulen group, which the government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. The group denies any...
Purge in full gear: Detention warrants issued for 189 people over alleged Gülen links: report
Detention warrants were issued on Tuesday for at least 189 people, including teachers, former public officers, engineers, businessmen and active duty and dismissed military officers, due to alleged links to the Gülen group, Turkish media reported. The Gulen group is...
36-year-old pıurge-victim judge dies of Covid-19: report
Abdünnasır Aslan, a 35 yer-old Turkish judge who was sentenced to 7 years, 6 months in prison over alleged links to the Gulen group, died on Wednesday due to complications from COVID-19. According to pro-Kurdish HDP deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, Mr. Aslan was...
2-month pregnant women sent to Antalya prison over Gulen links: report
A 32-year-old Turkish woman who is two month pregnant, has reportedly been sent to prison in Antalya province over alleged links to Turkey’s Gulen group, accused by the government of masterminding a coup attempt. The group denies any involvement. According to the Bold...
HDP deputy says whereabouts of jailed cancer patient are not known
Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a pro-Kurdish HDP deputy, tweeted on Tuesday that the whereabouts of Ayşe Özdoğan, an imprisoned Turkish woman with stage 4 maxillary sinus cancer, are not known. "Ayşe Özdoğan has been to three hospitals (since her arrest on Saturday). I'm...
Purge-victim cancer patient’s sister says she was denied visitation
The sister of Ayşe Özdoğan, an imprisoned Turkish woman with stage 4 maxillary sinus cancer, said in Twitter post on Monday that she was denied visitation to her sister in prison. Posting a video from in front of the Denizli prison complex, Emine Erdem said that...
Turkish activist Osman Kavala marks another birthday in İstanbul prison
Turkish businessman and activist Osman Kavala turns 64 in İstanbul’s notorious Silivri Prison where he has been held in pre-trial detention since November 2017 on terror and coup charges. Detained upon his arrival to İstanbul’s Atatürk airport late on Oct 18, Kavala...
Biology teacher drowned in Maritsa river laid to rest in Kahramanmaraş: report
Erkan Akıllı, a purge-victim biology teacher who drowned in the Maritsa River on Wednesday, was laid to rest on Saturday in his hometown of Kahramanmaraş, journalist Sevinç Özarslan reported. Akıllı drowned while trying to cross the river, whose lower course forms...
Stage 4 cancer patient sent to prison over Gulen links
Ayşe Özdoğan, a Turkish woman with stage 4 maxillary sinus cancer, was sent to prison on Saturday morning on charges of membership to the Gulen group, which the government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt. The group denies any involvement. According to a tweet...
Purge-victim teacher dies after being struck by a falling tree at work site: report
Serdar Ton, a purge-victim teacher and an employee of a tree cutting company in Kahramanmaraş province, has died after he was struck by a falling tree, the Kronos news portal reported. The man succumbed to his injuries. According to the report, Ton was dismissed by a...
Purge-victim biology teacher drowns trying to flee to Greece: report
Erkan Akıllı, a Turkish biology teacher attempting to flee persecution in Turkey has drowned in the Maritsa River, whose lower course forms part of the Bulgarian-Greek border and the Greek-Turkish line. According to the Kronos news portal, Akıllı was fired from his...
Turkish prisons home to 466 inmates with PhD degrees: report
Turkish prisons are home to at east 446 inmates with doctoral (PhD) degrees in a large variety of areas and career fields, while the number of inmates with postgraduate degrees stands at 2,412, the TR724 news portal reported. The report also revealed that 27,969...
Mother, father in prison for years over Gulen links, kids left in care of grandparents: report
Emine Sivri Aşkın and Cengiz Aşkın, two Turkish citizens and the parent of two children aged 5 and 10, have been held in pre-trial detention for over three months over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which is accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a...
Konya woman in prison for 20 months over Gulen links despite type 2 diabetes and kidney stones
Ayşe Çelik, a 41year-old Turkish woman, has been held in a Konya prison for almost twenty months over Gulen links despite suffering from type 2 diabetes and kidney stones, Tutsak Bebekler Twitter account reported. According to the tweet, Çelik is charged with having...
Turkish court jails 19 people for “aiding” families of post-coup victims: report
19 out of 43 people who were detained last Friday for providing “moral and material support” to the families of individuals targeted by a post-coup crackdown, were sent to prison by a Turkish court on Tuesday, the Kronos news portal reported. The remaining 23 people...
Turkish police detain 43 people for “aiding” families of post-coup victims
Turkish police have detained at least forty-three people, 16 of whom are dismissed public officers, in the northern province of Ordu for providing "moral and material support" to the families of individuals targeted by a post-coup crackdown in Turkey, the Turkish...
Short film “I’m innocent” draws attention to human rights violations in post-coup Turkey
A group of human rights activists have released a short film named "I'm innocent" in an attempt to draw attention to human rights violations in post-coup Turkey. The official description of the film that has so far been viewed over 19,000 on Youtube, reads: “‘"It is a...
Purge-victim military cadets demand justice in Toronto for jailed friends
A group of protestors gathered at Toronto's famed Nathan Phillips Square on Friday to demand the release of hundreds of military cadets, who were imprisoned by the Turkish government following a coup attempt in July 2016. The protestors consisted of several military...