by TurkeyPurge | Apr 5, 2022 | Today in Crackdown
Aynur Özmen, the wife of an imprisoned stage-4 cancer patient in Turkey, took to Twitter on Monday to call on the Turkish authorities to release her husband on probation for treatment. Özmen’s husband, Yusuf Özmen, has been in Erzurum H Type State prison for...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 20, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish court has ruled to release Huriye Acun, a 32-year-old purge-victim woman, after two weeks in prison on charges of having links to Turkey’s Gulen group, accused by the government of masterminding a coup attempt. The group denies any involvement. She is 28...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 10, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
A report issued by the Antalya hospital committee has advised against the imprisonment of a cancer patient whose prison sentence of nine years, five months has recently been upheld by a Turkish regional appeals court. The woman, named Ayşe Özdoğan, suffers from stage...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 30, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Journalist Sinan Aygün has been sent to prison for “violating the confidentiality of the investigation” with a report he published on a child sexual abuse case in Bitlis, a city in eastern Turkey. “I have surrendered to the prison to serve my...
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