by TurkeyPurge | Nov 18, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Murat Kılınç, a purge-victim history teacher who was fired from his job with a gov’t decree issued after a coup attempt in 2016, died on Tuesday due to complications from COVID-19. Mr. Eken was reportedly accused of having links to the Gulen group, which the Turkish...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 15, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Twenty-eight-year-old S.A.K. was detained on Thursday while visiting her husband, under arrest over alleged links to the Gülen group, which the government accuses of masterminding a July 15, 2016 coup attempt. According to the Kronos news portal, the woman went to the...
by TurkeyPurge | May 6, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Three more Turkish journalists have been sent to prison on charges of “disseminating terrorist propaganda” and “membership in an armed terrorist organization,” the T24 news portal reported on Friday. Ozan Kaplanoğlu, editor of the online platform @BursaMuhalif, was...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 8, 2017 | Human Tragedies
Y.E. a math teacher of ten years, now works as a construction worker in order to make his living. According to a Facebook post on March 6, Y.E. was dismissed from profession with a decree issued by the Turkish government in the aftermath of a coup attempt on July 15,...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 8, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Ahmet Can Pınar, a former deputy governor and current advisor on legal affairs in Ağrı province, was arrested on Tuesday night for using a smart phone application named ByLock. The use of ByLock is considered evidence of links to the Gülen movement, which is...
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