by TurkeyPurge | Feb 19, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Nurhayat Yildiz, a 29-year-old Sinop woman who miscarried her twins while in pretrial detention has been sentenced to 7.5 years in prison. According to journalist Cevheri Guven on Feb 12, Yildiz was given 7 years plus 6 months of prison sentence on charges of...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 1, 2018 | Human Tragedies, Today in Crackdown
An Istanbul lawyer, identified with her initials O.E.H., was put in pretrial detention along with her three-month-old baby as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement, media said. According to TR724 online news portal, O.E.H. stopped by the Tokat police...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 20, 2017 | Human Tragedies
Rana Ozturk, a mother of three children and the wife of Engin Ozturk who has been under arrest for 15 months over alleged ties to the Gulen movement, suffered a heart attack, media reported on Nov 18. Engin, a former employee of the now-defunct International Antalya...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 4, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish government, which has imprisoned 668 babies so far, has imprisoned one more mother together with her one-year-old daughter on Friday over her alleged links to the Gülen movement. Teacher Emine Toraman was sent to Yalova Prison together with her baby Saliha...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 9, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
An Ankara prosecutor has launched a probe against 7 people including Kezban Şaçılık, the septuagenarian mother of the dismissed civil servant Veli Şaçılık. Veli Saçılık is a former political prisoner and public servant who was sacked by government decree in the...