by TurkeyPurge | Aug 2, 2019 | Human Tragedies, Today in Crackdown
Bold Medya has released a video showing the negligence of police officers in the death of Gökhan Açıkkollu, a purged history teacher who died of a heart attack while under detention in 2016. [VIDEO] shows the moments history teacher Gokhan Acikkollu died of heart...
by TurkeyPurge | May 27, 2019 | Today in Crackdown, Torture
Rumors have it that former Foreign Ministry employees are being subject to torture and sexual abuse while under custody at Ankara Police Department, opposition deputy and a human rights activist Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu said. “There are allegations of torture at Ankara...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 30, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Russia’s state-controlled Sputnik news agency has closed down its Kurdish-language website and a request by Turkish government was behind the move, according to media. Former employees of Sputnik Kurdish claim that the news agency terminated its service in Kurdish...
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by TurkeyPurge | Apr 27, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
At least 5 people were detained over their alleged use of ByLock mobile application in Turkey’s central Anatolian province of Kayseri, media reported Friday. A Turkish prosecutor issued detention warrants for a total of 8 people in Kayseri on accusations that they use...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 1, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Slain history teacher Gökhan Açıkkolu was known for his links to the Gulen movement before he passed away, a senior Education Ministry bureaucrat tweeted Wednesday. Yusuf Tekin, the Undersecretary to Turkey’s Education Ministry said in a series of tweets over the past...
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