by TurkeyPurge | May 20, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A total of twelve people including 5 children were detained while they were reportedly on their way to escape to Greek islands in the Aegean Sea. Media reported Sunday that the group was rounded up after Turkey’s coastal guard stopped their boat off the Pigeon Island...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 24, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s Education Ministry has made a “necessary falsification” on its records shortly after a devoted physics teacher, removed from his job in the government’s post-coup purge, drowned along with his family while fleeing further persecution to Greece. Huseyin Maden,...
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by TurkeyPurge | Oct 27, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
At least 30 people were detained near Turkey’s maritime border with Greece with most of them escaping from the government’s post-coup crackdown, state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Friday. Coast guard in Mugla stopped a jet-ski and a zodiac boat off the shores...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 14, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A total of 14 people were detained near Turkey’s maritime border with Greece with most of them escaping from the government’s post-coup crackdown. Izmir police carried out an operation in the coastal district of Cesme where the suspects had reportedly gathered to go...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 28, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
B.A., the wife of former police chief Anadolu Atayun, who has already been under arrest for some 3 years, was put in pretrial detention after she was caught red handed while trying to illegally escape to Greece in a boat. Following a 34-hour chase launched upon a...
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