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...
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....
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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