by TurkeyPurge | Nov 2, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Irfan Bayar, a municipal worker in Kastamonu and a former soldier who was wounded in a clash with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in 1997, committed suicide after an investigation was launched against him for sending his kid to a private school affiliated...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 19, 2017 | Human Tragedies
Sevgi Balci, an Isparta-based mother of three and a 37-year old nurse who was dismissed from her position as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown, committed suicide on Aug 15. According to a local news outlet, Balci hanged herself at her home in Çünür...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 12, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The father of a 21-year-old university student who died after jumping off a balcony due to depression over her father’s imprisonment has been denied permission by a prosecutor to attend his daughter’s funeral. A fourth year student at the Istanbul-based Boğaziçi...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 2, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
A 46-year-old police officer in Hatay province shot himself dead after being targeted in the Turkish government’s post-coup witch hunt. Hasan Hüseyin Can was among tens of thousands of state workers who were suspended as part of an investigation into the Gülen...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 12, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
An imam in the Turkish province of Mersin whose teacher son was arrested in a massive post-coup purge for alleged Gülen links committed suicide on Monday night. The 53-year-old imam reportedly hung himself after leading the night prayer at Zeytinli Bahçe Mosque in...
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