by TurkeyPurge | Jun 2, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
A total of twenty-three people including 6 children were intercepted while they were reportedly on their way to escape to Greek islands in the Aegean Sea. Media reported Sunday that the group was rounded up in a boat near Ciplak Island off Balikesir’s resort district...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 26, 2019 | Human Tragedies, Today in Crackdown
21-year-old university student Mahir Mete Kul was found dead days after the boat he used to cross Evros river between Greece and Turkey capsized on March 24. A computer science student at Istanbul’s Beykent University, Kul spent 10 months in prison on charges of...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 29, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
At least 6 people were killed after a boat carrying Turkish asylum seekers capsized in the Aegean Sea on Sunday. Media reported that the boat was carrying 16 people when it departed Turkish coasts for the Greek island of Lesbos. Two women, identified by their...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 12, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Six people including 2 children were detained while they were reportedly on their way to escape to the Greek island of Symi in the Aegean Sea. Media reported Tuesday that the group was rounded up after police raided their boat before it departed from Turkey’s resort...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 5, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A 43-year-old Turkish man named Hasan Değirmenci has died of cerebral hemorrhage while on a charity trip for Turkish asylum claimants in Greece. “We are going [to Greece]. My heart could not bear this agony. I could not watch this agony from afar. Today, I have gotten...