by TurkeyPurge | Mar 4, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Veli Saçılık, a sociologist and leftist human rights activist, has visited the grave of Gökhan Açıkkollu, a teacher who was tortured to death while in police custody in the wake of a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016 over alleged membership in the Gülen group....
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 15, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Kezban Şaçılık, the septuagenarian mother of the purge-victim Turkish civil servant Veli Şaçılık, was reportedly beaten by a group of police officers for publicly protesting his son’s dismissal under post-coup emergency rule. Veli Saçılık is a former political...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 9, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
An Ankara prosecutor has launched a probe against 7 people including Kezban Şaçılık, the septuagenarian mother of the dismissed civil servant Veli Şaçılık. Veli Saçılık is a former political prisoner and public servant who was sacked by government decree in the...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 4, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Veli Saçılık, a former political prisoner and public servant who was sacked by government decree in the aftermath of a July 15 coup attempt in Turkey, was detained by police after he attempted to protest his dismissal under post-coup emergency rule in Ankara. Newly...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 1, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Newly emerged video footage shows the moment Turkish police fired hundreds of plastic bullets at Veli Saçılık, a former political prisoner and public servant who was sacked by a government decree in the aftermath of a July 15 coup attempt in Turkey. In the 43-second...
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