by TurkeyPurge | Jun 8, 2021 | Human Tragedies
A 65-year-old jailed Turkish man who had been denied release on parole until his cancer reached stage 4, died late on Monday, the Bold news portal reported. Ahmet Kaptan had spent some three years in Balıkesir Kepsut L Type prison on membership to Turkey’s Gulen...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 4, 2021 | Human Tragedies
A photo posted by a Twitter user shows an elderly woman with walking difficulty waiting to stand trial at a courthouse in Turkey on membership in a terrorist organization. “I took this photo in front of 2nd High Criminal Court at 17:02. Despite her walking...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 12, 2019 | Int'l Reactions
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has listed Turkey as the second worst jailer of journalists in its annual report for the year 2019. The CPJ’s report, released on Wednesday, said this year’s census marks the first time in four years that...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 13, 2019 | Human Tragedies
Emine Sivri Aşkın and Cengiz Aşkın, two Turkish citizens and the parent of two children aged 5 and 10, have been held in pre-trial detention for over three months over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which is accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 24, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish prosecutors has demanded an aggravated life sentence for the former co-mayor of Nusaybin in southeastern Turkey on charges of terrorism. Sara Kaya, a Kurdish mayor who was detained in a house raid on Jan. 13, 2017 and subsequently arrested, testified at a...
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Turkish reporter Ayşenur Parıldak set free after spending some 6 years in prison
73-year-old Kurdish man dies of Covid-19 in prison: report
1.5-year-old child joins mother in prison: report
Turkish journalist says Karabük police arrests 14 female university students in midnight raids
6-month pregnant jailed woman released on probation after almost 2 months in prison
Turkish Supreme Court of Appeals upholds 4-year prison time for leading opposition figure
24 former public officials detained in midnight raids for “providing financial support” to families of imprisoned “Gulenists”
6-month pregnant jailed woman hospitalized due to heavy breathing difficulty