by TurkeyPurge | Oct 4, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
The sister of Ayşe Özdoğan, an imprisoned Turkish woman with stage 4 maxillary sinus cancer, said in Twitter post on Monday that she was denied visitation to her sister in prison. Posting a video from in front of the Denizli prison complex, Emine Erdem said that...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 2, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish businessman and activist Osman Kavala turns 64 in İstanbul’s notorious Silivri Prison where he has been held in pre-trial detention since November 2017 on terror and coup charges. Detained upon his arrival to İstanbul’s Atatürk airport late on Oct 18, Kavala...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 2, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Erkan Akıllı, a purge-victim biology teacher who drowned in the Maritsa River on Wednesday, was laid to rest on Saturday in his hometown of Kahramanmaraş, journalist Sevinç Özarslan reported. Akıllı drowned while trying to cross the river, whose lower course forms...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 2, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Ayşe Özdoğan, a Turkish woman with stage 4 maxillary sinus cancer, was sent to prison on Saturday morning on charges of membership to the Gulen group, which the government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt. The group denies any involvement. According to a tweet...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 2, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Erkan Akıllı, a Turkish biology teacher attempting to flee persecution in Turkey has drowned in the Maritsa River, whose lower course forms part of the Bulgarian-Greek border and the Greek-Turkish line. According to the Kronos news portal, Akıllı was fired from his...
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