by TurkeyPurge | May 23, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
An inmate has died from an apparent complication related to COVID-19 at Silivri Prison in istanbul, according to a statement by the İstanbul Bakırköy Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office. According to the same statement, the number of coronavirus cases in the facility has...
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 | May 11, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
At least 191 inmates in İstanbul’s notorious Silivri Prison, have so far tested positive for COVID-19 , according to Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, an opposition member of the Turkish parliament and a rights activist. Gergerlioğlu said in a tweet late on Sunday that eight...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 2, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish journalist Hakan Gülseven was briefly detained on Tuesday for using a Twitter tag that translates as “not a smallest bit” in response to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s call to raise funds to aid victims of the coronavirus epidemic. “I...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 31, 2020 | Int'l Reactions
Human Rights Watch (HRW) and several EP officialls have called on the Turkish government to release all political prisoners to stem COVID-19 spread. Nacho Sánchez Amor, the European Parliament’s standing rapporteur on Turkey, and Sergey Lagodinsky and the chair of the...
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