by TurkeyPurge | Feb 19, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Nurhayat Yildiz, a 29-year-old Sinop woman who miscarried her twins while in pretrial detention has been sentenced to 7.5 years in prison. According to journalist Cevheri Guven on Feb 12, Yildiz was given 7 years plus 6 months of prison sentence on charges of...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 10, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Mülkiye Demir Kılınç, a 32-year-old mother of twin babies was put under arrest after the Supreme Court of Appeals upheld her conviction on terror charges. Detained along with her twin babies on the road to the western province of Aydın on Aug 6, Kılınç was sent to...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 23, 2017 | Human Tragedies
The 28-year-old Nurhayat Yildiz miscarried her twins in prison and the dead bodies of her babies were not returned to any of her family members. Arrested following her detention on Aug 29, 2016 over ByLock mobile app, Yildiz lost her twins in 19th week of her...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 6, 2017 | Human Tragedies
A day after former teacher Ş.A., mother of a week-old premature infant, was taken into police custody over links to the Gülen movement while she was on her way to the hospital to feed the baby, another mother was detained as part of the same investigation while her...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 15, 2016 | Human Tragedies
In yet another example of human tragedies proliferated in the aftermath of the July 15 coup attempt, a Sinop woman lost her twins in jail after she was arrested due to the ByLock mobile application that she says has never downloaded. Turkish government claims that...
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