by TurkeyPurge | Jul 1, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A 73-year-old Turkish man, identified by his initials O.E.C., was taken to hospital as his medical condition deteriorated after being detained. O.E.C. was taken into custody as part of a police operation targeting the followers of the Gulen movement in Turkey’s...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 27, 2017 | Human Tragedies, Today in Crackdown
Ali Osman Karahan, an 87-year-old Turkish man who has been kept in an Isparta prison for almost 15 months over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, was given 11-day solitary confinement for relieving other inmates by saying: “if you are not guilty, you will be...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 11, 2017 | Human Tragedies
Detained in the southern province of Isparta as part of a post-coup investigation, a woman, identified with initials Ö.A., has been transferred to a prison in Siirt, an eastern province 1,291 kilometers away from home. According to Aktif Haber online news portal, Ö.A....
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 30, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
A total of 45 people including teachers and academics were taken into custody as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt, on Wednesday. The state-run Anatolian Agency reported that 15...
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