by TurkeyPurge | Oct 14, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
A deputy police chief, who had been held in prison for over four years, was found dead in a quarantine cell in Turkey’s Gümüşhane E Type Closed Prison. The photos taken after his death revealed the poor conditions of the prison facility. According to the Bold...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 20, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
The AKP government is in preperation of releasing thousands of prisoners — possibly up to 100,000 — in order to stem Covid-19 infection, the Turkish media reported. Turkey has a total of 384 prisons. According to the report, political prisoners who are...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 14, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Alican Ergun, one of the 355 military cadets who were jailed on coup charges in the aftermath of a failed military coup in July 2016, was released from prison for a day to attend his father’s funeral. Alican spent the day of his father’s funeral in handcuffs and...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 9, 2020 | Int'l Reactions
An online petition has been launched to re-unite an eight-year-old Turkish kid who is receiving cancer treatment in Germany, with his mother, who is not allowed to leave Turkey due to a travel ban. The kid — Ahmet Burhan Ataç, — went to Germany on January...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 4, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish police have detained a total of 1,768 people throughout January over alleged links to the Gülen group, an Interior Ministry spokesperson announced on Tuesday. The group is accused by the government of orchestrating an abortive putsch in 2016 despite its denial...
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