by TurkeyPurge | Oct 14, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
A deputy police chief, who had been held in prison for over four years, was found dead in a quarantine cell in Turkey’s Gümüşhane E Type Closed Prison. The photos taken after his death revealed the poor conditions of the prison facility. According to the Bold...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 10, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Police teams armed with machine guns raided a house in Adana belonging to a family accused of “giving financial support” to the purge-victims who were either jailed or fired from their jobs over Gülen links. Among the detainees is a woman with a six-month old baby...
by TurkeyPurge | May 23, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
An inmate has died from an apparent complication related to COVID-19 at Silivri Prison in istanbul, according to a statement by the İstanbul Bakırköy Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office. According to the same statement, the number of coronavirus cases in the facility has...
by TurkeyPurge | May 13, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
Çetin Çiftçi, a Turkish journalist who has been sentenced to 6 years, 3 months in prison on charges of membership in a terrorist organization, has tested positive in Ankara’s Sİncan prison. According to the Jailed Journos Twitter account, Çiftçi suffers from...
by TurkeyPurge | May 11, 2020 | Today in Crackdown
At least 191 inmates in İstanbul’s notorious Silivri Prison, have so far tested positive for COVID-19 , according to Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, an opposition member of the Turkish parliament and a rights activist. Gergerlioğlu said in a tweet late on Sunday that eight...
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