by TurkeyPurge | Jul 30, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Two Turkish citizens who fled Turkey to avoid prosecution over trump-up terror charges, were sentenced to 6 months in prison by a court in Malta on Wednesday over use of forged travel documents, the Malta Times news portal reported. They were reportedly caught by the...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 11, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
An Ankara court has ruled for the continuation of the imprisonment of Nuriye Gülmen, a former teacher who was removed from her job as part of a government’s post-coup purge. Gülmen is to remain behind bars until the next hearing, scheduled for September 2021. Gülmen...
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....
Turkey’s far-right MHP says Kavala should be stripped of Turkish citizenship
Constitutional Court rejects cancer patient’s application for release: report
Purge-victim math teacher dies of Covid-19: report
Imprisoned law professor attends daughter’s funeral in handcuffs
Daughter of purge-victim professor dies in traffic accident: report
Turkey issues detention warrants for 29 former diplomats over Gulen links: report
Antalya police detain 72-year-old woman for protesting imprisonment of daughter with stage 4 maxillary sinus cancer
Turkish gov’t to increase prison capacity by a further 500,000 beds by 2024: deputy
Kurdish politician sentenced to 20 months in prison for spreading “terrorist propaganda”