by TurkeyPurge | Jul 26, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
At least 5 people were detained for attending local protests in Sakarya against detainment of journalists Ekrem Dumanlı and Hidayet Karaca in 2014, as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement on Tuesday. The detainees are reported to be former employees of...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 4, 2018 | Human Tragedies, Today in Crackdown
A 27-year-old Turkish teacher who was earlier jailed as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown against the Gulen movement, was infected with HIV virus while he was in prison, according to his lawyer. Lawyer Salih Koçak told Cumhuriyet newspaper on March 31 that...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 1, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Ayşe Çalışkan, a Sakarya teacher who was dismissed from her job in September 2016, died of stomach cancer on March 30. The mother of two was diagnosed with cancer nearly a month after she was purged as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown. She had a surgery in...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 3, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Ali Kaya, a physics professor at Turkey’s Boğaziçi University has said he used science to stay sane during his 440-days under pretrial detention. Kaya was jailed in October 2016 over his alleged ties to the Gulen movement and had his final hearing only on late...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 27, 2017 | Human Tragedies
Ibrahim Eski, a 31-year-old police officer who was suspended from his job due to his alleged links to the Gülen movement, committed suicide on Tuesday. Failed to hear from the father of two for a while, Eski’s relatives broke into his home in Sakarya where they found...