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...
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by TurkeyPurge | Jun 17, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A total of nine people including 4 children and 4 teachers were detained while they were reportedly on their way to escape to Greece. Dogan news agency reported Saturday that the group was rounded up in a restricted military zone near Evros river in Edirne, a small...
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by TurkeyPurge | Jan 9, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
At least 13 people were detained while they were allegedly on their way to flee Turkey’s post-coup crackdown to Greece, media said on Jan 9. State-run Anadolu news agency said gendarmerie stopped a suspected group of 13 people in Gavurağılı neighborhood in the western...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 2, 2017 | Human Tragedies
Engin Öztürk, a father of three who spent 15 months behind bars over his alleged ties to the Gulen movement, has been released only after his wife, Vina Öztürk passed away following a heart attack. Engin was the sole breadwinner of the Öztürk family until he was...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 24, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s Education Ministry has made a “necessary falsification” on its records shortly after a devoted physics teacher, removed from his job in the government’s post-coup purge, drowned along with his family while fleeing further persecution to Greece. Huseyin Maden,...
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