by TurkeyPurge | May 11, 2019 | Int'l Reactions, Today in Crackdown
A total of 51 people are being kept in a cell in Diyarbakir prison that is meant for only 12 people, Ayşe Çelik, a Kurdish teacher who was released from prison yesterday, has revealed. Turkey’s Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday that the imprisonment of Kurdish...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 20, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Ayşe Çelik, a Turkish teacher who was briefly put in pre-trial detention in April 2018 for “praising terrorism and a terrorist organization” during live talk show in 2016, was sent to jail for a second time on Wednesday, according to her lawyer. Çelik, an unemployed...