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Turkey issues detention warrants for academics on hunger strike: lawyer

Turkey issues detention warrants for academics on hunger strike: lawyer

by TurkeyPurge | May 21, 2017 | Today in Crackdown

An Ankara prosecutor issued detention warrants for Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, two educators who have been on hunger strike for more than seventy days in order to protest their dismissals under post-coup emergency rules. Gülmen was fired from Konya Selçuk...
Ankara police break into house of dismissed academics on hunger strike

Ankara police break into house of dismissed academics on hunger strike

by TurkeyPurge | May 21, 2017 | Today in Crackdown

Turkish police on Sunday raided a houses belonging to Semih Özakça and Nuriye Gülmen, educators who went on a hunger strike after they were fired by government decree in the aftermath of a July 15 coup attempt in Turkey. “The political police are breaking our...

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