by TurkeyPurge | Nov 2, 2022 | Today in Crackdown
When a 9-year-old girl finally got to see her imprisoned father again, cameras were rolling, and so were the tears. According to a video footage posted by Turkish journalist Sevinç Özarslan, Bilal Konakçı, a purge-victim bomb disposal expert who was jailed on terror...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 28, 2022 | Today in Crackdown
Kurdish politician Aysel Tuğluk was released from prison late on Thursday night after a medical report confirmed that she was not fit to stay in prison due to dementia, the impaired ability to remember, think, or make decisions that interferes with doing everyday...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 18, 2022 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish police have detained at least 543 people in 59 provinces across Turkey for “providing financial support” to families of imprisoned “Gulenists” over alleged links to the 2016 coup attempt. According to the state-run Anadolu news agency, the suspects are accused...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 16, 2022 | Today in Crackdown
A 26-year-old university student jumped to his death from the observation deck of Galata Tower on Wednesday reportedly due to depression caused by the imprisonment of his father in a post-coup purge. The youngster, name Emre Güney, was the son of Haşim Güney, a former...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 2, 2022 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has rejected an application for release filed by Kadri Sancar, a 22-year-old Kurdish youngster who has been held in İzmir prison since 2015. “I just want to die. Constitutional Court has rejected our application. My brother has been...
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