by TurkeyPurge | Jul 3, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Former Istanbul prosecutor Sadrettin Sarikaya has been held in solitary confinement for more than 500 days, according to his son. Sarikaya, the prosecutor who had called the intelligence chief Hakan Fidan for testimony as part of a 2012 investigation into the outlawed...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 19, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A 73-year-old dual citizen of Germany and Turkey has been held in solitary confinement in Istanbul’s Silivri prison as part of his pretrial detention over ties to the Gulen movement, according to German news agency DPA. Enver Altayli, former member of the Turkish...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 9, 2017 | Human Tragedies
Nurettin Aytuğ, the manager of the Erbil branch of the government-closed Bank Asya who has been under arrest over a year, has developed psychological disorders in prison, according to his family. Aytuğ’s family members told Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) that he...
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...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 28, 2016 | Human Rights Abuses, Human Tragedies, Torture
Muhsin Durmaz, a judge dismissed from profession by the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) in the aftermath of the July 15 for his alleged links to the Gülen movement, was later arrested and put in solitary confinement. According to his wife, Durmaz was...
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