by TurkeyPurge | May 10, 2022 | Today in Crackdown
Ahmet Mağden, a 63-year-old retired electrical engineer who suffers from Parkinson’s disease, has been in prison since June 2021 over alleged links to the Gulen group, which the Turkish gov’t accuses of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. The group...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 16, 2019 | Human Tragedies
Münise Kübra Çakırçoban, a fourth year medical student, has been sentenced to six years and 10 months in prison over her alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, accused of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. According to Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a pro-Kurdish...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 5, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Osman Kavala, a Turkish businessman and activist who has been held in pre-trial detention since November 2017, has written an open letter from İstanbul’s Silivri prison, in which he said the ongoing state of emergency has turned extraordinary accusations and...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 17, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The mayor of Bilecik’s İnhisar district intervened in Sala prayers recited by a local imam in order to encourage people into streets during the night of July 15, 2016 coup attempt, has been arrested by a Turkish court. According to the Birgün daily, Ayhan...
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Purge-victim law professor drowns trying to save friend at an Ontario lake
Hundreds gather in Strasbourg to demand justice for victims of Turkey’s post-coup crackdown