by TurkeyPurge | Mar 26, 2019 | Human Tragedies, Today in Crackdown
21-year-old university student Mahir Mete Kul was found dead days after the boat he used to cross Evros river between Greece and Turkey capsized on March 24. A computer science student at Istanbul’s Beykent University, Kul spent 10 months in prison on charges of...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 4, 2018 | Human Tragedies, Today in Crackdown
A group of Turkish asylum seekers in Greece has become a sensation after they left 10 euros for the wood they took from a café to stay warm, local media reported Tuesday. “Last night a group of people we came from Turkey. Because of the cold weather we had to make...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 2, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
At least three people were intercepted in Edirne while they were reportedly on their way to escape to Greece with illegal means, in the latest of such attempts aimed at avoiding Turkey’s post-coup crackdown. A lawyer; a medical professor who was earlier removed from...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 19, 2018 | Human Tragedies, Today in Crackdown
A woman and three children were reportedly missing after a boat carrying several Turkish asylum seekers capsized in Evros river along Turkey-Greece border. “A boat carrying Turkish purge victims was capsized on Evros River, Greece, a mom and 3 kids lost in flood, a...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 13, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
At least three people died and four others were missing after a boat carrying a group of eight capsized on Tuesday in the Maritsa River while seeking to escape a post-coup crackdown in Turkey. According to Turkish media reports, the dead were identified as Ayşe...