by TurkeyPurge | Jul 19, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
With 4 Turkish asylum seekers still missing after their boat capsized in Evros river, Turkey has reportedly detained one of their relatives. A woman and her three children went missing after a boat carrying several Turkish asylum seekers who fled Turkey due to an...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 13, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
At least three people died and four others were missing after a boat carrying a group of eight capsized on Tuesday in the Maritsa River while seeking to escape a post-coup crackdown in Turkey. According to Turkish media reports, the dead were identified as Ayşe...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 26, 2016 | Human Rights Abuses, Torture
“Police officer banged my client’s head on the floor, causing marks and bruises on his head. When I complaint about ill-treatment, the police said it would be very easy for him to have me arrested for being a member of the Gülen movement as well,” a lawyer told Human...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 20, 2016 | Anti-Gulen, Human Rights Abuses
Eye doctor Ayhan Yılmaz has been missing since he was detained by Turkish police under the post-coup emergency rules, according to his journalist brother İsmail Hakkı Yılmaz. Bursa police raided house of Dr. Yılmaz and took him under custody on August 24. According to...