by TurkeyPurge | May 25, 2019 | Human Tragedies, Today in Crackdown
A jailed woman named Hatice Sahnaz was sent bact to prison a day after she delivery her baby girl at a nearby hospital, media reported Saturday. Arrested on Sept 4, 2018 when she was 3-weeks pregnant, the 28-year-old woman has been behind bars in an Antalya prison...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 9, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Pro-Kurdish politician Esma Yılmaz has been denied release from pre-trial detention even though her 1-year-old daughter, kept in prison along with the mother, needs 6-month treatment at a hospital for her Asthma problem. Arrested over terror charges in Dec 2017,...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 19, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Nurhayat Yildiz, a 29-year-old Sinop woman who miscarried her twins while in pretrial detention has been sentenced to 7.5 years in prison. According to journalist Cevheri Guven on Feb 12, Yildiz was given 7 years plus 6 months of prison sentence on charges of...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 19, 2018 | Human Tragedies
An Izmir couple, both teachers, were put in pretrial detention over their links to the Gulen movement as grand family members are now parenting their newborn twins and 7-year-old daughter, according to media. The physics teacher, identified as O.K. was detained along...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 5, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Women wanted for their alleged ties to the Gulen movement are now accused of getting pregnant to ditch arrest, according to state-run Anadolu news agency. A 25-page indictment prepared by the Istanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office as part of an investigation into the...
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