by TurkeyPurge | Oct 13, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Kaya Kartal, the president of the Association of Human Rights and Solidarity for Oppressed Peoples (Mazlumder), has said that Turkey’s Council of Forensic Medicine needs to be shut down immediately as its false medical reports cause death of many victims in...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 13, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Bilal Danış, a one-armed Turkish man, has been in prison for almost 5 years over alleged links to the Gulen group, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. The group denies any involvement. The purge-victim man was placed in a...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 2, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Erkan Akıllı, a purge-victim biology teacher who drowned in the Maritsa River on Wednesday, was laid to rest on Saturday in his hometown of Kahramanmaraş, journalist Sevinç Özarslan reported. Akıllı drowned while trying to cross the river, whose lower course forms...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 20, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Yusuf Özmen, a cancer patient who has recently been sentenced to 8 years, 9 months in prison due to his alleged links to the Gülen group, has been hospitalized for immediate angiography following a deterioration in his heart function. According to the Kronos news...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 18, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Demet Evgar, a Turkish actress, took to Twitter on Saturday to call on authorities to release an imprisoned pregnant woman from prison. “Please Hear Her Voice! Don’t let her give birth in prison,” Evgar tweeted. 32-year-old Huriye Acun has been sent...
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