by TurkeyPurge | Jun 21, 2022 | Today in Crackdown
A group of Turkish soldiers were caught on camera raiding a Kurdish-majority neighborhood in southeastern Van province in an attempt to arrest a suspect. According to the video recorded by a local civilian, at least 12 soldiers are seen firing random bullets into the...
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...
Purge-victim nurse reinstated to job years after her death
73-year-old purge-victim man dies in Ünye prison
8-month-old baby enters Edirne prison with incarcerated parents
Exiled Turkish journalist targeted by pro-Erdoğan daily
Kurdish man freed after 30 years in prison
80-year-old Kurdish woman set free after 4 months in prison
Purge-vicitm police officer who committed suicide laid to rest
Purge-victim police commissioner dies of heart attack
Syrian woman sent to prison with 2-month-old baby over “terror” charges
2 years ago today: Purge-victim police chief found dead in a quarantine cell in Turkish prison