by TurkeyPurge | Sep 10, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The New York-based Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF) released a new report titled “Death in Custody: Right to Life in Turkish Prisons” expressing concerns over the increasing number of suspicious deaths in custody since an attempted coup on July 15, 2016 in...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 14, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
At least 3 people were dead with 8 others left injured after a fight broke out between bodyguards of a ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) deputy and shopkeepers in Turkey’s largely Kurdish province of Sanliurfa on Thursday AK Party deputy Ibrahim Halil...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 29, 2018 | Human Tragedies
A 35-year old Turkish woman, named Esma Uludağ, who fled Turkish government’s post-coup crackdown to Greece, passed away on Saturday night due to a heart attack. Esma Uludağ, mother of three children, aged 3, 7 and 10 years old, worked as a civil servant in a...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 3, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A 5-years-old boy, identified as F.D., passed away after he was hit by a police vehicle in the Kurdish predominant province of Diyarbakir on Dec 29. The 1habervar.com online news portal reported that a minibus carrying plainclothes police officers crashed F.D. near...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 18, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
The daughter of former Bursa public prosecutor Seyfettin Yiğit, who allegedly committed suicide in a prison bathroom on Friday morning after he was put behind bars over Gülen movement ties, said on Saturday that his father was murdered, refusing claims that his father...
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U.S. House Committee Chair calls on Turkish President Erdogan to release purge-victim prisoners in face of COVID-19 outbreak
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Turkish woman says she was tortured with acid in police custody: report
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