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Sena Özcerit released, eight of his friends put in pre-trial detention on coup, terror charges

Sena Özcerit released, eight of his friends put in pre-trial detention on coup, terror charges

by TurkeyPurge | May 21, 2019 | Today in Crackdown

Sena Özcerit, the daughter of Ahmet Turan Özcerit, a computer science professor who died of cancer in Feb. 2018 after spending some 13 months under arrest on coup charges, has been released after spending three days in police custody. However, according to tweets...
UK-educated computer science professor, jailed for 13 months, dies of liver cancer

UK-educated computer science professor, jailed for 13 months, dies of liver cancer

by TurkeyPurge | Feb 12, 2018 | Human Tragedies

Ahmet Turan Özcerit, a UK-educated computer science professor who spent as long as 13 months under arrest as part of the government’s post-coup witch hunt, has passed away of liver cancer. The academic’s son Sinan Özcerit said Monday that his father died at hospital....
Computer science professor, jailed in post-coup sweep, gets cancer diagnosis in prison

Computer science professor, jailed in post-coup sweep, gets cancer diagnosis in prison

by TurkeyPurge | Sep 4, 2017 | Human Tragedies

Under arrest for 13 months over links to the Gulen movement, Ahmet Turan Özcerit, an associate professor at Sakarya University’s Faculty of Computer and Information Science until he was dismissed, has been diagnosed with cancer in his liver and intestines. Özcerit was...

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