by TurkeyPurge | Jul 30, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Torture
A Bartin man, identified with his initials D.G., was bound to a chair and pushed into sea on multiple times as police officers tortured him while under custody, according to Aktifhaber online news portal. Detained as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement in...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 21, 2017 | Human Tragedies
Once an inspiring educator to his pupils, a Batman teacher was detained with her hands cuffed behind back as a perceived enemy of the state, his wife said in a letter to Turkish media on With the names of both the teacher and his wife remaining anonymous, the details...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 20, 2016 | Anti-Gulen, Human Rights Abuses
Eye doctor Ayhan Yılmaz has been missing since he was detained by Turkish police under the post-coup emergency rules, according to his journalist brother İsmail Hakkı Yılmaz. Bursa police raided house of Dr. Yılmaz and took him under custody on August 24. According to...
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