by TurkeyPurge | Aug 17, 2018 | Human Tragedies
Emine Ay, a 4.5-months pregnant woman who was jailed last month, has been hospitalized due to risk of a potential miscarriage. “I have just talked with the chief physician at the Bitlis State Hospital. She was hospitalized because she had a risk of miscarriage. She is...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 9, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
At least 25 people were detained as part of an investigation into 5 associations that were earlier closed by the government over their links to the Gulen movement, on Thursday. Detention warrants were issued for 64 people who used to work at the following,...
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 | Dec 6, 2017 | Human Tragedies, Today in Crackdown
Turkish police are waiting at Kahramanmaras Hayat Hospital to detain Ş.G., who just gave birth to her first baby, over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which is accused by the Turkish government of mounting a botched coup attempt last summer, an opposition...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 12, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
At least 35 people in Adana province were detained as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15, 2016 coup attempt, on Tuesday. The detainees included several women with one of them, identified as...