by TurkeyPurge | Jun 20, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Torture
Three people accused of attacking police headquarters and tortured under detention in the eastern Turkish province of Van turned out to be civilians who were collecting mushrooms on a mountainside, the Hürriyet daily reported on Monday. According to the report, they...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 22, 2017 | Torture
O.K., a purge victim in Zonguldak province who was detained on Aug. 1 last year over links to the Gülen movement, was tortured by police officers in a room without surveillance, stripped naked, beaten for 22 days and threatened with raping his wife. According to a...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 13, 2016 | Torture
Under custody for his alleged links to the Gülen movement, the head of AKTIF SEN Educators Union’s Afyon branch has been tortured so heavily that he could not be able walk for some time. Independent news portal TR724 on Wednesday published the eighth part in a series...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 6, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy Mehmet Metiner has said he would have done the same if he were the police officers who roughed up sympathizers of the Gülen movement in an attempt to arrest them. “I am not interested in [allegations of] kicks and...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 23, 2016 | Anti-Gulen, Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses
“No room for the traitor!” an assailant shouted after attacking with a mop stick a Çanakkale man who was detained as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15. Top government officials...
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