by TurkeyPurge | Aug 12, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Fatma Güleç, a Turkish woman from Samsun province, has been put in pre-trial detention by a Turkish court over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which is accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. According to Ömer Faruk...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 18, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Murat Gulen, a 60-year-old villager who was detained after he publicly questioned the government’s narrative over the July 15, 2016 coup attempt during a video interview by the pro-government Ihlas News Agency, was arrested by a court on Friday and put in pre-trial...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 7, 2017 | Human Tragedies
Taner Nakıboğlu, the owner of government-seized Naksan Holding, a Turkey-based packing company, said during a hearing on Tuesday that before his company was confiscated, he was the richest businessmen in Gaziantep province; yet his family now lives on the breadline....
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 11, 2017 | Human Tragedies
A breastfeeding mother was separated from her eight-month-old baby when she was transferred from an İstanbul prison to another one in Gebze, the pro-Kurdish DİHA news agency reported on Tuesday. According to the agency, Gülistan Akbaba was transferred from İstanbul’s...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 11, 2017 | Human Tragedies
Kadir Eyce, a 33-year-old police officer who was jailed due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, has died several weeks after he was released from prison due to health problems. According to photos and tweets posted by family members on Twitter, Eyce had been...