by TurkeyPurge | Oct 16, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Hardly a day goes without a news story about disappearances of Turkish nationals abroad. In a recent video recording widely shared on social media on Oct 16, a Turkish woman Birsen Kilic said her husband Enver Kılıç disappeared while flying from Kazakhstan to...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 3, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday called on Turkish Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül in a letter to investigate the abductions and disappearances, which may have been enforced, in Ankara of at least four men, who have been missing since March 2017. “There are...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 9, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
A new study has revealed that the Turkish government has resumed illegal abductions and enforced disappearances that were believed to be a thing of the past, primarily confined to the dark period of the 1990s, when mainly Kurds were victimized, according to the...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 26, 2017 | Human Tragedies
Upon Turkish authorities’ reluctance to start an investigation into the abduction of Murat Okumus, a 40-year-old accountant who was a manager at the government-closed Sifa University Hospital in Izmir, his mother is now asking for help from the government officials....
by TurkeyPurge | May 19, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Fatih Kılıç, a teacher who was dismissed from his job under post-coup emergency rule, and lawyer Mustafa Özben have been missing for days, joining the ranks of seven others who disappeared under suspicious circumstances in the aftermath of a July 15, 2016 coup...