by TurkeyPurge | Mar 13, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Mustafa Aygün, a former police chief with the Eskisehir Police Department was sentenced to 105 years in total on several charges, Anadolu news agency reported Wednesday. Aygun was a deputy police chief responsible for intelligence desk in Eskisehir. Arrested in Ankara...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 8, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Atanur Akat, a former police chief who was removed from his post with a post-coup emergency decree, has died of brain hemorrhage, media reported Tuesday. Akat was dismissed and he spent some time behind bars as part of a post-coup investigation over links to...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 2, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A former police officer who was suspended from the office over his alleged ties to the Gulen movement has killed himself in Kahramanmaras’s Turkoglu district. Local media reported Sunday that 31-year-old former police officer, identified by his initials F.Ç.,...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 7, 2018 | Human Tragedies
Ali Ünlü, a 42-year-old former police officer who was earlier dismissed from his job as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown, died of heart attack in a refugee camp in Stuttgart, according to media and people with knowledge of the incident. Ünlü, one of over...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 11, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Ender Özkul, the jailed father of a 13-year-old cancer patient who has failed to respond to treatment so far, was denied release from prison. Muhammed Eray Özkul, the 13-year-old son of the Zonguldak-based former police officer Ender Özkul, was diagnosed with cancer...
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