by TurkeyPurge | Feb 2, 2020 | Human Tragedies
Seynur Özdemir, a Turkish woman from Ankara, suffers from soft tissue sarcoma, a rare type of cancer that begins in the tissues that connect, support and surround other body structures. She however has been held in Ankara’s Sİncan prison since June 2019 on...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 18, 2020 | Human Tragedies
Ramazan Sarıkaya, a Turkish man with one kidney, has been held in a prison for over nine months on coup, terror charges even though his remaining kidney works at around 35 percent capacity. According to pro-Kurdish HDP Deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, Sarıkaya is at an...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 2, 2018 | Human Tragedies
Gökhan Açıkkollu was a history teacher in İstanbul. What makes him memorable is that he is one of the hunreds of thousands of people who have been victimized by an ongoing purge carried out by the Turkish government since a coup attempt on July 15, 2016....
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
Ahmet Tuncer Yolcu and Zeynep Yolcu, a Turkish couple who were arrested some two weeks ago over their alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, have allegedly faced maltreatment, physical violence and torture as well as being threatened with death, according to a...
by TurkeyPurge | May 10, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The passport of a Turkish national has been confiscated by officials at the Turkish Consulate General in Warsaw with no justification on March 23. Turkeypurge.com received a complaint from a Turkish national named Said Aburrahim Murat, who stated that his passport was...
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Turkish mob boss: Erdogan gov’t asked me to murder American pastor Andrew Brunson
Turkey jails mother of imprisoned military cadet
Turkish President calls on parliament to pass laws banning social media platforms
Purge-victim Turkish professor dies of cancer at 54
9 international human rights groups call on Turkish gov’t to release political prisoners in face of COVID-19 outbreak
U.S. House Committee Chair calls on Turkish President Erdogan to release purge-victim prisoners in face of COVID-19 outbreak
Counter-terrorism units raid house of Adana family over “financial aid” to purge-victim families