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Report: Halfeti detainees tortured again for exposing torture

Report: Halfeti detainees tortured again for exposing torture

by TurkeyPurge | May 29, 2019 | Today in Crackdown, Torture

A report released by the Foundation for Society and Legal Studies (TOHAV) has claimed that some of the people who were detained last week in Halfeti in southeastern Şanlıurfa province are being exposed to further torture for revealing their ill treatment, the Artı...
Kurdish mayor, dismissed by gov’t, gets 13.5 years in jail on terror charges

Kurdish mayor, dismissed by gov’t, gets 13.5 years in jail on terror charges

by TurkeyPurge | May 22, 2019 | Today in Crackdown

Zeynep Sipçik, former co-mayor of Mardin’s Dargeçit district, has been sentenced to 13 years in jail. Under arrest since March, 2016, Dipcik was convicted of membership to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), media reported Tuesday. Dipcik was the...
Report: Man commits suicide after dismissal from gov’t-seized municipality

Report: Man commits suicide after dismissal from gov’t-seized municipality

by TurkeyPurge | May 11, 2019 | Uncategorized

A Sirnak man, named Recep Argan, committed suicide after he lost his his job at the government seized Beytüşşebap Municipality, according to media on Saturday. Argan jumped into the Habur Creek on Friday and his body has yet to be retrieved, media said. The father of...
51 people being held all together in a 12-people cell in prison, newly-released teacher says

51 people being held all together in a 12-people cell in prison, newly-released teacher says

by TurkeyPurge | May 11, 2019 | Int'l Reactions, Today in Crackdown

A total of 51 people are being kept in a cell in Diyarbakir prison that is meant for only 12 people,  Ayşe Çelik, a Kurdish teacher who was released from prison yesterday, has revealed. Turkey’s Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday that the imprisonment of Kurdish...
Lyon university academic arrested over terrorism charges in Turkey

Lyon university academic arrested over terrorism charges in Turkey

by TurkeyPurge | May 11, 2019 | Today in Crackdown

Tuna Altınel, a mathematics professor at France’s Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University., was arrested on terrorism charges in Turkey’s Balikesir. Media reported May 11 that Altinel stopped by a police station in Balikesir, seeking to get information about a...
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