by TurkeyPurge | Nov 2, 2016 | Human Tragedies
A 46-year-old Turkish woman, identified only by her name Aynur, died after spending five in intensive care unit in Romania where she came to seek safety from an ever growing witch-hunt at her home country. A volunteer for Hizmet for 25 days and a former hospital...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 25, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish police detained 59 Syrian refugees as well as three Turkish citizens as they were attempting to flee to Greece on Tuesday. Thousands of people have fled Turkey due to a massive witch-hunt launched by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government against...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 17, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
A total of seven Turkish citizens were detained while they were attempting to flee to Romania over Bulgaria, according to Turkish media. Seven people including three police officers dismissed under post-coup emergency rules, an Osmaniye based reporter for the...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 15, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan threatened Gülen movement sympathizers, who he accuses of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15, with a revocation of their citizenship and said he hopes those countries who shelter and host them will be troubled by their presence....
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 12, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Police detained an associate professor along with a teacher while they were planning to cross the Evros (Meriç) River from Turkey’s northeastern province of Edirne to Greece, on Sunday. Edirne police stopped two suspects near the Evros River and detained them for...
Emotional reunion of 9-year-old daughter, disabled father after 20 months in Turkish prison
Dementia-suffering Kurdish politician released from prison
The head of Turkey’s doctors’ union sent to prison on terror accusations
Turkish police detain 543 people in 59 provinces over alleged Gülen links
Son of purge-victim judge jumps to his death from İstanbul’s Galata Tower
Constitutional court rejects jailed Kurdish youngster’s appeal for release
This Kurdish youngster in 6th year in Silivri prison on coup charges
14 more military cadets set free after 6 years in prison
Turkish gov’t seeks extradition of critical journalist Cevheri Güven
Purge-victim police officer dies after accident at a mining site in Gebze