by TurkeyPurge | Jul 2, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A former police officer who was suspended from the office over his alleged ties to the Gulen movement has killed himself in Kahramanmaras’s Turkoglu district. Local media reported Sunday that 31-year-old former police officer, identified by his initials F.Ç.,...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 25, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A 25-year-old police officer who was earlier suspended from his job in Turkey’s post-coup crackdown has shot himself dead 2 months after he was reinstated to the office. Erdem Gezer, a father of one from the eastern province of Bitlis, was temporarily removed from...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 23, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A 54-year-old cleaning worker who was suspended over security surveillance at a government-seized municipality, has died of a heart attack. Ali Aras was suspended from his job at Mersin’s Akdeniz Municipality which was earlier seized by the mayor’s alleged ties to the...
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 | Jan 14, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A local commissioner of deeds in Kocaeli’s Korfez district, identified with initials S.D., was suspended from office for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. According to media on Jan 8, a judicial and administrative investigation was launched against...
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