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...
Emotional reunion of 9-year-old daughter, disabled father after 20 months in Turkish prison
Dementia-suffering Kurdish politician released from prison
The head of Turkey’s doctors’ union sent to prison on terror accusations
Turkish police detain 543 people in 59 provinces over alleged Gülen links
Son of purge-victim judge jumps to his death from İstanbul’s Galata Tower
Constitutional court rejects jailed Kurdish youngster’s appeal for release
This Kurdish youngster in 6th year in Silivri prison on coup charges
14 more military cadets set free after 6 years in prison
Turkish gov’t seeks extradition of critical journalist Cevheri Güven
Purge-victim police officer dies after accident at a mining site in Gebze