by TurkeyPurge | Apr 23, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
At least 23 people were detained after police intervened in a sit-in in front of the Batman prison, on Tuesday. The suspects were protesting the government’s lack of attention towards their jailed family members who are staging hunger strike in dozens. Peoples’...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
Turkish police teams used force to enter the Diyarbakır offices of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in the early hours of Saturday and detained seven party officials on a hunger strike, the Mesopotamia news agency reported. There were 10 people inside...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 3, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The mother of Semih Özakça, a primary school teacher who went on a hunger strike after he was fired by government decree in the aftermath of a July 15 coup attempt in Turkey, has been detained. Özakça’s mother, Sultan, was detained along with Beyza, the sister of the...
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by TurkeyPurge | Oct 20, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
An Ankara court on Friday ruled for the release of Semih Özakça and continued the pretrial detention of Nuriye Gülmen, who went on a hunger strike in May after they were fired from their jobs by a government decree following a failed coup last year. According to the...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 30, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Ahmet Mandaci, a lawyer representing hunger striker teachers Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, under arrest for over 2 months, was arrested. “We were told that lawyer Ahmet Mandaci was rounded up in the courthouse. Lawyer Ahmet Mandaci was arrested after the prosecutor...
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