by TurkeyPurge | Aug 2, 2019 | Human Tragedies, Today in Crackdown
Bold Medya has released a video showing the negligence of police officers in the death of Gökhan Açıkkollu, a purged history teacher who died of a heart attack while under detention in 2016. [VIDEO] shows the moments history teacher Gokhan Acikkollu died of heart...
by TurkeyPurge | May 28, 2019 | Today in Crackdown, Torture
The Ankara Bar Association on Tuesday published a report including interviews with five detainees who were subjected to torture last weekend at a detention center in Ankara, exposing details of the torture perpetrated by law enforcement officials. Another detainee who...
by TurkeyPurge | May 27, 2019 | Today in Crackdown, Torture
Rumors have it that former Foreign Ministry employees are being subject to torture and sexual abuse while under custody at Ankara Police Department, opposition deputy and a human rights activist Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu said. “There are allegations of torture at Ankara...
by TurkeyPurge | May 11, 2019 | Today in Crackdown, Uncategorized
For the first time since being released from Turkish custody, German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yücelspoke about the torture he experienced while being held in pretrial detention at a prison near Istanbul. Testifying before a Berlin district court on Friday, Yücel spoke...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
Adm. Nejat Atilla Demirhan, who was sentenced to life in prison on charges involving a failed coup in Turkey in July 2016, has detailed what he went through following the coup and during his trial, in a letter to the Medya Bold news website. In an eight-page...
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