by TurkeyPurge | Dec 10, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Internationally known Turkish author Aslı Erdoğan, who is currently in jail, said that due to rumors of revolts in prisons she and other inmates stayed on alert for five days, in a written interview for an Italian daily. Erdoğan, who was imprisoned on charges of...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 29, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
At a time when reports are circulating about government plans to stage riots in Turkey’s prisons to eliminate political prisoners, panic broke out over a fire in İstanbul’s Silivri Prison on Tuesday which turned out to have been caused by an inmate setting himself on...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 6, 2016 | Int'l Reactions
Lawyer Ömer Turanlı has called on human rights organizations and the relevant commissions of the EU to immediately monitor incidents taking place in Turkey’s prisons while expressing grave concerns about the safety of his clients due to claims of a staged riot. In a...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 5, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish government is headed for mass killings of people jailed over alleged or real links to the Gülen movement, in a staged riot in Silivri prison, a lawyer representing a former police chief imprisoned as part of a crackdown against the movement claimed underlying...
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