by TurkeyPurge | Apr 29, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Ümit Horzum, a former public servant who was earlier removed from his job at Turkish Accreditation Agency (TURKAK) in a government’s post-coup emergency decree, has been released from police custody where he spent 11 days after his 133 days of disappearance....
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 2, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said Fethullah Gülen, who lives in the US, will face the same end as six Turks who were abducted in Kosovo and removed to Turkey on March 29, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. Turkey’s National Intelligence...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 19, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish lawyer Burak Mengü was detained by a group of plainclothes police officers who battered him under custody, he revealed after being abandoned at a roadside in Istanbul’s Umraniye. “No one told me why and where I was being taken to,” Mengü tweeted Saturday....
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 21, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Two Turkish nationals were abducted by a group of unidentified people immediately after they were released from police custody in Azerbaijan, according to media. Yeni Hamle online news portal reported Feb 19 that Ayhan Seferoğlu and Erdoğan Taylan have been...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 23, 2017 | Human Tragedies
The mother of Ümit Horzum, a dismissed public servant who was reportedly abducted from his car in Ankara earlier this month, has asked for help from officials, in a video recording. “My son has been missing since Dec 6. Where did they take my son? What did my son do?...