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 2, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Teoman Gökçe, a top judge and a former member of the Turkish Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK), has passed away following a heart attack in prison, media reported Monday. Gökçe was a HSK member until he quitted in the summer of 2014 claiming that government...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 29, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Şentürk Çoban, the security manager of the Highway Shopping Mall in Turkey’s Bolu province has died following a heart attack during a court appearance. Çoban who spent some 6 months before being released pending trial on accusations of membership to the Gulen...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 16, 2017 | Human Tragedies
The 74-year-old businessman Recep Erdem, under arrest as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement, passed away after a heart attack while his two children, also in prison over similar charges, were allowed to attend funeral ceremony only in handcuffs....
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 14, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Co-chairperson of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtaş, who was jailed last month, was taken to Trakya University Hospital on Wednesday, upon his request for a health checkup, the Anadolu news agency reported. Gendarmes implemented...
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