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by TurkeyPurge | May 20, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
59-year-old businessman Sacit Çalık has died in a tragic traffic accident that claimed the lives of 4 others while he was reportedly on his way to visit his relatives imprisoned in an Elazig prison. Çalık’s car collided head-on with a minibus near Erzurum’s Cat...
by TurkeyPurge | May 9, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A dismissed teacher and another person, both wanted over their links to the Gulen movement, have been rounded up during an ID control by gendarmeries on a train. Hurriyet newspaper said Wednesday that the 37-year-old teacher, identified as A.K., and another person,...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 23, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Kazim Ünlü, a former teacher who was removed from his job in the government’s post-coup purge of state institutions and an executive at Turkey’s main educators’ union, Egitim Sen has passed away following a heart attack. According to Evrensel daily newspaper on...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 6, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Muhsun Kunur, a pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) member and the former mayor of Sirnak’s Silopi district who has been in prison over terror charges for the past 9 months, was not allowed to attend the funeral of his mother who died on Tuesday....
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 20, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish police detained a total of 13 high school teachers in Kayseri, while another 27 have been arrested by courts in Nevşehir and Elazığ over their alleged links to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 failed coup. Pro-gov’t...
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