by TurkeyPurge | Jul 7, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Bülent Taş, a Turkish-German humor writer and theater director, was deported from Turkey after he was kept in police custody for two days on the grounds that he looked “suspicious,” the artigercek news website reported on Friday. Taşkın, who travelled to İzmir for a...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 17, 2018 | Human Tragedies
A 5-year-old boy from Istanbul who, along with his mother, fled the Turkish government’s post-coup witch-hunt to Greece has been diagnosed with leukaemia in Athens. “Nail Koçal, a 5-year-old Turkish refugee in Greece, was diagnosed with leukaemia on Thursday. His...
by TurkeyPurge | May 6, 2018 | Human Tragedies
Mehmet Ali Uludağ, a Turkish refugee in Germany who lost his wife to cerebral hemorrhage last week, said that his elder brother has been detained in a midnight raid back home. “My pain has been multiplied now. I have two brothers. One is Veli Uludağ who died as a...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 29, 2018 | Human Tragedies
A 35-year old Turkish woman, named Esma Uludağ, who fled Turkish government’s post-coup crackdown to Greece, passed away on Saturday night due to a heart attack. Esma Uludağ, mother of three children, aged 3, 7 and 10 years old, worked as a civil servant in a...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 18, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Adil Demirci, a Turkish origin German ciziten, has been put in pre-rial detention in Turkey over alleged “membership in a terrorist organization.” According to the German news portal Deutsche Welle, Demirci was initially detained by the Turkish police on...
Isparta man with Parkinson’s disease briefly detained over alleged Gulen links
Stage 2 cancer patient sent to prison over Gulen links: report
Purge-victim İzmir man suffers facial paralysis in solitary confinement: report
Turkish court arrests Samsun man for “insulting” Ataturk
Missing purge-victim bureaucrat “found” in Ankara prison: daughter
Purge-victim woman dies of Covid-19: report
A year ago today: Purge-victim police officer dies of Covid-19 in prison
5-year old kid with down syndrome joins mother in prison: report
At least 106 people died in Turkish prisons since July 2016: report
Purge-victim judge becomes watermelon vendor to make a living