by TurkeyPurge | Oct 2, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Erkan Akıllı, a purge-victim biology teacher who drowned in the Maritsa River on Wednesday, was laid to rest on Saturday in his hometown of Kahramanmaraş, journalist Sevinç Özarslan reported. Akıllı drowned while trying to cross the river, whose lower course forms...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 2, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Ayşe Özdoğan, a Turkish woman with stage 4 maxillary sinus cancer, was sent to prison on Saturday morning on charges of membership to the Gulen group, which the government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt. The group denies any involvement. According to a tweet...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 30, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Emine Sivri Aşkın and Cengiz Aşkın, two Turkish citizens and the parent of two children aged 5 and 10, have been held in pre-trial detention for over three months over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which is accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 30, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Ayşe Çelik, a 41year-old Turkish woman, has been held in a Konya prison for almost twenty months over Gulen links despite suffering from type 2 diabetes and kidney stones, Tutsak Bebekler Twitter account reported. According to the tweet, Çelik is charged with having...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 27, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish police have detained at least forty-three people, 16 of whom are dismissed public officers, in the northern province of Ordu for providing “moral and material support” to the families of individuals targeted by a post-coup crackdown in Turkey, the...
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