by TurkeyPurge | May 9, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Forty-four inmates in İstanbul’s Silivri Prison have tested positive for COVID-19, the chief public prosecutor’s office announced on Friday, the Gazete Duvar news website reported. Two of the inmates were taken to a hospital, while remainder have been quarantined...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 14, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
The mother of one of the military cadets who were jailed in the aftermath of a failed military coup in July 2016, is about to start a “March of Justice” from Turkey’s capital of Ankara to İstanbul in protest of the imprisonment of her son and other cadets on terror,...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 4, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
An İstanbul court has handed down life sentences to 70 air force academy cadets on charges of attempting to destroy the constitutional order by means of a coup attempt on July 15, 2016, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. The 70 military cadets, who stood...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 12, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Haluk Levent, a Turkish rock singer and leading a public figure, has recently paid a visit to a purge-victim teacher who now weighs only 29 kilograms due to a series of health problems. The singer tweeted on October 10 that Ahbap, an Istanbul-based aid foundation,...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 19, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Ziyan Karahan, the editor of the Mezopotamya Agency’s Kurdish services, has been detained by police in Diyarbakır province, the Gazetekarınca news portal reported. Karahan was reportedly detained in a midnight house raid. The reason for her detention is unknown at the...
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