by TurkeyPurge | May 13, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Çetin Çiftçi, a Turkish journalist who has been sentenced to 6 years, 3 months in prison on charges of membership in a terrorist organization, has tested positive in Ankara’s Sİncan prison. According to the Jailed Journos Twitter account, Çiftçi suffers from...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 16, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish authorities begun to release prisoners to stem the spread of COVID-19 hours after a release bill was approved by the Turkish parliament on Tuesday. In the upcoming weeks, around 45,000 prisoners are expected to be released to stem the spread of the...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 13, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Three people have died of coronavirus in Turkish prisons so far, according to the country’s justice minister, Abdulhamit Gül. The minister also said that 17 other convicts in five open prisons have contracted the virus. Turkey has a total of 384 prisons. These...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 10, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Two doctors in Şakran Prison in the western port city of İzmir have tested positive for COVID-19, according to a joint statement by the Turkish Human Rights Foundation (TİHV) and the country’s Human Rights Association (İHD). The two rights groups urged authorities to...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 6, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Murat Sadıç, a nuclear cardiology professor who reportedly spent over a year in a Turkish prison in 2017 over alleged coup charges, has been invited to the United States due to his “promising coronavirus vaccine research” in Germany. According to the Bold...
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