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82 asylum seekers pushed back from Greece to Turkey in past three weeks: report

82 asylum seekers pushed back from Greece to Turkey in past three weeks: report

by TurkeyPurge | May 11, 2019 | Int'l Reactions

Scores of Turkish asylum seekers have been pushed back — sometimes violently — from Greece in the last three weeks, lawyers and family members told Euronews. Witnesses claim various groups of masked men in military uniform, as well as those in plain clothes...
Biology teacher who fled Erdogan’s crackdown to Argentina dies while working to make a living as deliveryman

Biology teacher who fled Erdogan’s crackdown to Argentina dies while working to make a living as deliveryman

by TurkeyPurge | May 3, 2019 | Human Tragedies, Today in Crackdown

Ebubekir Altay, a 34-year-old biology teacher from Turkey who sought refuge in Argentina in the face of the President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s post-coup crackdown, passed away following a traffic accident. Altay picked up ice-cream from a store in Buenos Aires with his...
15 Turkish asylum seekers flee to Greece, 4 pushed back to Turkey by group of masked men

15 Turkish asylum seekers flee to Greece, 4 pushed back to Turkey by group of masked men

by TurkeyPurge | Apr 29, 2019 | Today in Crackdown

A group of Turkish political asylum seekers claims that, following their attempt to cross the Turkish border via Evros River in the northeast of Greece on Friday evening, they were pushed back after being beaten by masked men with batons. Tugba Ozkan, a journalist in...
Man arrested for helping son-in-law escape from Turkey to Greece as asylum seeker

Man arrested for helping son-in-law escape from Turkey to Greece as asylum seeker

by TurkeyPurge | Apr 18, 2019 | Today in Crackdown

An Edirne man, identified as Fikret A., was arrested for helping his son-in-law escape from Turkey to Greece as an asylum seeker. State-run Anadolu news agency said Apr 13 that gendarme detained Fikret A due his allegedly suspicious behavior near Turkey-Greece border....
Turkish computer science student missing in Evros following failed attempt to escape to Greece

Turkish computer science student missing in Evros following failed attempt to escape to Greece

by TurkeyPurge | Mar 26, 2019 | Human Tragedies, Today in Crackdown

21-year-old university student Mahir Mete Kul was found dead days after the boat he used to cross Evros river between Greece and Turkey capsized on March 24. A computer science student at Istanbul’s Beykent University, Kul spent 10 months in prison on charges of...
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