by TurkeyPurge | Oct 16, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Hardly a day goes without a news story about disappearances of Turkish nationals abroad. In a recent video recording widely shared on social media on Oct 16, a Turkish woman Birsen Kilic said her husband Enver Kılıç disappeared while flying from Kazakhstan to...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 9, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Torture
A victim, who was detained over his alleged links to the Gülen movement, has identified the location of a secret detention facility in Ankara that was used by Turkish government authorities to practice both verbal and physical tortures on detainees in a 14-minute...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 3, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday called on Turkish Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül in a letter to investigate the abductions and disappearances, which may have been enforced, in Ankara of at least four men, who have been missing since March 2017. “There are...
by TurkeyPurge | May 19, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Fatih Kılıç, a teacher who was dismissed from his job under post-coup emergency rule, and lawyer Mustafa Özben have been missing for days, joining the ranks of seven others who disappeared under suspicious circumstances in the aftermath of a July 15, 2016 coup...
by TurkeyPurge | May 17, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A lawyer representing Önder Asan, a private school teacher who was allegedly abducted by unidentified persons in Ankara on April 1, has been detained for refusing to sign a false testimony prepared by the police on behalf of his client, the Aktifhaber news portal...
Kurdish politician sentenced to 20 months in prison for spreading “terrorist propaganda”
Covid-19 patient sent to prison in a specially designed jumpsuit over Gulen links: report
Detention warrants issued for 113 people over alleged Gülen links: report
Visually impaired lawyer in prison for 275 days over Gulen links: report
Purge-victim disabled army veteran is in his 240th day of imprisonment on terror charges:
800 days ago today: Purge-victim Ankara man goes missing
Mazlumder says Council of Forensic Medicine needs to be shut down over “false” medical report
One-armed man held in İzmir prison for 5 years over Gulen links: report
Opposition leader says Kavala and Demirtaş in prison over trumped-up charges: report
COVID-19 outbreak reported at Antalya prisons