by TurkeyPurge | Oct 7, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
İbrahim Gökçek, a leftist singer and a member of Grup Yorum, a Turkish band known for their political songwriting, has shared the first photo since the beginning of his prison sentence in November 2016. The singer has been on a hunger strike for over four months and...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 11, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Nesrin Gençosman, a 30-year-old woman who was put in pre trial detention early in May 2018 over her alleged links to Turkey’s Gulen group, died on Wednesday in an Ordu prison, reportedly due to deprivation of the medication she took for pneumonitis . According...
by TurkeyPurge | May 17, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Pınar Aydınlar, a famous folk singer and a council member of Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), was beaten by guards at İstanbul’s Bakırköy prison after refusing a strip search, according to the Cumhuriyet daily. Aydınlar was arrested on Tuesday due to a final...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 30, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Prisoners in Turkey’s Diyarbakır prison have been banned from receiving a number of classic novels, including Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, on the grounds that the literature might be used as a tool for “encoded communication,” the RT reported. Citing the...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 7, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The administration of Silivri Prison in İstanbul, a facility that holds mainly political prisoners, has set up CCTV cameras in the toilets and bathrooms of the women’s wards, a violation of the female inmates’ right to privacy, several Turkish media outlets reported...
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