by TurkeyPurge | May 29, 2019 | Human Tragedies, Today in Crackdown
Harun Karateke, a 27-year-old English teacher who was jailed in March 2017 due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, is suffering mental health problems in jail and is not receiving proper treatment, the Aktif Haber news website reported on Tuesday. Karateke was...
by TurkeyPurge | May 28, 2019 | Today in Crackdown, Torture
The Ankara Bar Association on Tuesday published a report including interviews with five detainees who were subjected to torture last weekend at a detention center in Ankara, exposing details of the torture perpetrated by law enforcement officials. Another detainee who...
by TurkeyPurge | May 27, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
A former top judge who was jailed as part of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s post-coup crackdown has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, on Monday. Former Council of State member Haşim Güney was convicted of membership to the Gulen movement, a broadened terror...
by TurkeyPurge | May 27, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
At least 20 people were detained as part of a Denizli-based investigation into the Gulen movement, media reported Monday. Police carried out raids at different locations in Denizli, Istanbul, Ankara, Bursa, Aydın, Van, Uşak and Bayburt provinces and detained the...
by TurkeyPurge | May 25, 2019 | Human Tragedies, Today in Crackdown
A jailed woman named Hatice Sahnaz was sent bact to prison a day after she delivery her baby girl at a nearby hospital, media reported Saturday. Arrested on Sept 4, 2018 when she was 3-weeks pregnant, the 28-year-old woman has been behind bars in an Antalya prison...
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