by TurkeyPurge | Sep 2, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The chief physician of the now-closed Turgut Ozal University Hospital, identified as M.Y., was given 15.5 years in prison. M.Y. and his wife U.Y., also a medical professor, were caught red handed while they were attempting to escape from Turkey’s post-coup witch-hunt...
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by TurkeyPurge | Aug 2, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
At least three people were intercepted in Edirne while they were reportedly on their way to escape to Greece with illegal means, in the latest of such attempts aimed at avoiding Turkey’s post-coup crackdown. A lawyer; a medical professor who was earlier removed from...
by TurkeyPurge | May 12, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Meral Danış Beştaş has said his brother Ramazan Danış, a medical professor, was dismissed from his job only because of his family ties. “I wouldn’t want to reveal this but I had to because this period is coming to an...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 5, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Arif Yilmaz, a medical professor and the former rector of the Recep Tayyip Erdogan University (RTEÜ), has been sentenced to 4 years and two months in jail. Accused of links to the Gulen movement, Yilmaz spent 11 months in pretrial detention before being released on...
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