by TurkeyPurge | Feb 22, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Journalist Naciye Nur Ener Kılınç, who was released from jail on Tuesday and put under house arrest, said there are six children in the prison cell to which she was confined for 357 days. “I am free, but there is a 30-day-old infant behind those doors. There are six...
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, Today in Crackdown
A Turkish woman who gave birth to her baby 40 days ago, has been kept under police custody along with her newborn over the past four days, according to main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu. “Today marks UN’s Childrens’ Rights Day;...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 13, 2017 | Human Tragedies
Ayfer Yavuz, whose husband imprisoned as part of government witch hunt against the Gülen movement following a failed coup attempt in last July, was put in jail along with her four-and-half-month-old infant when she went to Kars prison to visit her husband on Jan. 23....
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 9, 2016 | Human Tragedies
In yet another example of disproportionate punishment imposed on people targeted in Turkey’s post-coup witch-hunt, an English-language teacher was put behind bars along with her 36-day-old baby in Mersin province. Emin Çölaşan, a veteran columnist from the country’s...