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42-year-old man with advanced thyroid cancer denied release from prison, wife tweets

42-year-old man with advanced thyroid cancer denied release from prison, wife tweets

by TurkeyPurge | Aug 20, 2021 | Today in Crackdown

Abdülaziz Örpek, a 42-year-old inmate with advanced thyroid cancer, has regularly been denied release from prison, according to tweets posted by his wife, Ayşegül Karaturgut. “My husband, Abdülaziz Örpek, is abandoned to die in Diyarbakır T type closed prison....
Leftist singer İbrahim Gökçek shares first photo from prison, debuts major weight loss

Leftist singer İbrahim Gökçek shares first photo from prison, debuts major weight loss

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...
30-year-old woman dies of pneumonitis in Ordu prison: report

30-year-old woman dies of pneumonitis in Ordu prison: report

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...
Pro-Kurdish singer beaten up in Bakırköy prison after refusing strip search: report

Pro-Kurdish singer beaten up in Bakırköy prison after refusing strip search: report

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...
Turkey now bans Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves for ‘safety reasons’

Turkey now bans Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves for ‘safety reasons’

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...
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