by TurkeyPurge | Mar 14, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on Tuesday hit back at a statement issued by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office concerning the 2016 death of teacher Gökhan Açıkkollu, asking why allegations of torture had not been...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 7, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
An indictment prepared by an İstanbul prosecutor seeks a prison sentence of from 7.5 to 15 years for Minure Açıkkollu, wife of Gökhan Açıkkollu, a teacher who was tortured to death while in police custody in the wake of a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016 over...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 2, 2018 | Human Tragedies
Gökhan Açıkkollu was a history teacher in İstanbul. What makes him memorable is that he is one of the hunreds of thousands of people who have been victimized by an ongoing purge carried out by the Turkish government since a coup attempt on July 15, 2016....
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 27, 2018 | Human Tragedies
Gökhan Açıkkollu, a history teacher who was tortured to death while in police custody in the wake of a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016 over alleged membership in the Gülen group, was found innocent one-and-a-half years later and “reinstated” to his job. The...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 5, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
On August 5, 2016. Gökhan Açıkkollu, a history teacher suffering from diabetes, died of torture in police custody as part of a post-coup investigation into Turkey’s Gülen group, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15,...
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