by TurkeyPurge | Nov 11, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Cemile Dönmez and Mehmet Dönmez, two Turkish citizens and the parent of an 8 eight-year-old kid with epilepsy, have been in pre-trial detention since August 18, 2021, over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which is accused by the Turkish government of...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 4, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Hüsamettin Uğur, a former member of Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals, has been isolated in a one-person cell in a Kırıkkale prison since a failed coup in July 2016. After the coup attempt in July 2016, Turkey disbarred some 4,500 judges and prosecutors and imprisoned...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 19, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Antalya police on Tuesday detained Fatmana Karakuzu, the mother of Ayşe Özdoğan, an imprisoned woman with stage 4 maxillary sinus cancer, for protesting her daughter’s imprisonment over trumped-up charges of “participation in a terrorist organization.” Karakuzu...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 14, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Mehmet Ali Uçar, a visually impaired Turkish lawyer, is in the 276th day of his imprisonment on charges of membership in the Gulen group, accused of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. The group denies any involvement. The disabled lawyer also suffers from...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 13, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Bilal Danış, a one-armed Turkish man, has been in prison for almost 5 years over alleged links to the Gulen group, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. The group denies any involvement. The purge-victim man was placed in a...
Turkish court bans access to Turkish editions of Deutsche Welle, VOA
Purge-victim military cadet pays visit to opposition leader days after being released from prison
Police detain 7 university students over “terrorism” accusations
Turkish court removes travel ban for former Zaman journalists
Antalya police detain YouTube journalist Arif Kocabıyık
87-year-old bedridden inmate fit to remain in prison, says Turkish Council of Forensic Medicine
İstanbul Pride: At least 361 LGBT activists detained throughout Sunday’s parade
Purge-victim law professor drowns trying to save friend at an Ontario lake
Hundreds gather in Strasbourg to demand justice for victims of Turkey’s post-coup crackdown