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
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...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 30, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Emine Sivri Aşkın and Cengiz Aşkın, two Turkish citizens and the parent of two children aged 5 and 10, have been held in pre-trial detention for over three months over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which is accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 28, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
19 out of 43 people who were detained last Friday for providing “moral and material support” to the families of individuals targeted by a post-coup crackdown, were sent to prison by a Turkish court on Tuesday, the Kronos news portal reported. The remaining 23 people...