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...
Emotional reunion of 9-year-old daughter, disabled father after 20 months in Turkish prison
Dementia-suffering Kurdish politician released from prison
The head of Turkey’s doctors’ union sent to prison on terror accusations
Turkish police detain 543 people in 59 provinces over alleged Gülen links
Son of purge-victim judge jumps to his death from İstanbul’s Galata Tower
Constitutional court rejects jailed Kurdish youngster’s appeal for release
This Kurdish youngster in 6th year in Silivri prison on coup charges
14 more military cadets set free after 6 years in prison
Turkish gov’t seeks extradition of critical journalist Cevheri Güven
Purge-victim police officer dies after accident at a mining site in Gebze