by TurkeyPurge | Oct 2, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Erkan Akıllı, a purge-victim biology teacher who drowned in the Maritsa River on Wednesday, was laid to rest on Saturday in his hometown of Kahramanmaraş, journalist Sevinç Özarslan reported. Akıllı drowned while trying to cross the river, whose lower course forms...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 30, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Ayşe Çelik, a 41year-old Turkish woman, has been held in a Konya prison for almost twenty months over Gulen links despite suffering from type 2 diabetes and kidney stones, Tutsak Bebekler Twitter account reported. According to the tweet, Çelik is charged with having...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 23, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Photos recently posted by Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, human rights defender and deputy from the Democratic Peoples’ Party (HDP), have revealed that a purge-victim police officer who died due to Covid-19 was handcuffed to a hospital bed during intubation. Veysel Atasoy,...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 15, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Galip Küçüközyiğit, a former Turkish bureaucrat who had been missing since late 2020, has been “found” in the Sincan High Security Prison, according to tweets posted by his daughter. “Yesterday I got a call that my father was in prison. I waited for some...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 7, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
An İzmir prosecutor has issued detention warrants for a total of 145 military cadets, 69 ex-military officers over alleged links to Turkey’s Gulen group, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. The group denies any involvement....
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