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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Dementia-suffering Kurdish politician released from prison
The head of Turkey’s doctors’ union sent to prison on terror accusations
Turkish police detain 543 people in 59 provinces over alleged Gülen links
Son of purge-victim judge jumps to his death from İstanbul’s Galata Tower
Constitutional court rejects jailed Kurdish youngster’s appeal for release
This Kurdish youngster in 6th year in Silivri prison on coup charges
14 more military cadets set free after 6 years in prison
Turkish gov’t seeks extradition of critical journalist Cevheri Güven
Purge-victim police officer dies after accident at a mining site in Gebze