by TurkeyPurge | Jan 26, 2020 | Human Tragedies
A fundraising campaign lauched by a Turkish activist raised €50,000 in less than 24 hours for Ahmet Burhan Ataç, an eight-year-old Turkish kid who went to Germany on Sunday for cancer treatment without his parents as the father is in prison and the mother is subject...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 21, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Asım Sencer Uslu entered prison when he was only 40-day-old. Yesterday, he turned 3 in a Konya prison, according to a Twitter account that monitors the human rights abuses in Turkish prisons. 3-year-old Asım and his mother have been staying in a prison in...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 17, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Enes Ünal, the son of jailed Turkish journalist Mustafa Ünal, was detained by Ankara police, the Bold news reported. The reason for detention remains unclear. Mustafa Ünal was the Ankara bureau chief for the now-closed Zaman daily. He was arrested after a military...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 10, 2019 | Human Tragedies
Yusuf Bilge Tunç, a former civil servant who was fired from Turkey’s Defense Ministry, has been missing since Tuesday, according to Turkish deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu. Tweeting a photo of the vehicle belonging to Bilge Tunç, Tanrıkulu called on the Turkish interior...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 26, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Abdulhalim C., the deputy governor of the northwestern province of Karabük, has been put in pre trial detention over his alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, the Cumhuriyet daily reported on Sunday. Turkey experienced a military coup attempt on July 15 that killed...
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