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by TurkeyPurge | Jun 6, 2018 | Human Rights Abuses, Human Tragedies, Torture
Family members of İbrahim Halil Özyavuz, a medical doctor who was jailed in May over alleged links to the Gülen movement, said that Özyavuz did not commit suicide as previously reported but rather died after he was subjected to heavy torture by police officers while...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 18, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
US novelist Dan Brown’s best-selling thriller, The Da Vinci Code was banned in Istanbul’s Silivri prison under Turkey’s post-coup emergency measures, according to the main opposition Republican Peoples’ Party (CHP) deputy Baris Yarkadas. “Silivri Prison’s...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 30, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Ahmet Mandaci, a lawyer representing hunger striker teachers Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, under arrest for over 2 months, was arrested. “We were told that lawyer Ahmet Mandaci was rounded up in the courthouse. Lawyer Ahmet Mandaci was arrested after the prosecutor...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 18, 2017 | Human Tragedies
M.K., a retired police officer under arrest at Silivri prison for some time, had his jaw broken after he, all of a sudden, fainted and fell to the ground on Feb. 2. Yet, he is yet to have a surgery despite experts warning of further ramifications. Already a high-blood...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 16, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) Adana deputy Meral Danış Beştaş said she is being kept under tight isolation in the prison. As part of a parliamentary question she submitted from Silivri prison, Beştaş said she has been kept under solitary confinement for...
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