by TurkeyPurge | Apr 29, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Ümit Horzum, a former public servant who was earlier removed from his job at Turkish Accreditation Agency (TURKAK) in a government’s post-coup emergency decree, has been released from police custody where he spent 11 days after his 133 days of disappearance....
by TurkeyPurge | May 21, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Durmuş Ali Çetin, a police officer who was earlier dismissed from his job with a post-coup emergency degree has been missing for the past three days with his family concerned about the security of his life. According to Kronos online news portal on Saturday, his...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 20, 2017 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown
Mysterious disappearances involving already-victimized opposition groups have become a common occurrence in Turkey in the aftermath of a July 15 coup attempt, with at least seven cases of alleged abduction reported so far. Those not seen for quite some time all have...
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