by TurkeyPurge | Sep 5, 2022 | Today in Crackdown
Bekir Akarsu, 57-year-old purge-victim police commissioner, died of heart attack on September 3, according to Turkish journalist Sevinç Özarslan. Akarsu was fired from his job with a decree issued by the government in the aftermath of the coup attempt in 2016. He was...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 25, 2022 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish pop singer and songwriter Gülşen Bayraktar Çolakoğlu has been sent to prison in İstanbul as part of an investigation launched due to her remarks that allegedly insulted the graduates of the religious imam-hatip schools in Turkey. The İstanbul Chief Public...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 23, 2022 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish teacher, identified with initials T.A., was sent to prison on Monday over alleged links to the Gulen group, which the government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. The group denies any involvement. The purge-victim teacher was sentenced to 6...
by TurkeyPurge | May 28, 2022 | Today in Crackdown
Uğur Uçar, a purge-victim police commissioner, died of heart attack four years ago today at a furniture factory in Istanbul where he worked to make a living. Uçar, a high-ranking police commissioner, was fired from his job with a gov’t decree and subsequently...
by TurkeyPurge | May 21, 2022 | Today in Crackdown
Ali Burak Darıcılı, a former Turkish intelligence officer, said during a live TV interview that Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) has abducted individuals linked to the Gülen group from some African and Central Asian countries by bribing local...
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This Kurdish youngster in 6th year in Silivri prison on coup charges
14 more military cadets set free after 6 years in prison
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