by TurkeyPurge | May 21, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Wife and daughter of Ahmet Turan Özcerit, a computer science professor who died of cancer in Feb. 2018 after spending some 13 months under arrest on coup charges, has been detained by police on similar charges. According to tweets posted by Özcerit’s son late on...
by TurkeyPurge | May 20, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
At least 20 people have been detained by Turkish army in Halfeti village of Şanlıurfa province over their alleged links to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which is classified as a terrorist organization by the EU, the US and Turkey. Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu,...
by TurkeyPurge | May 20, 2019 | Human Tragedies, Int'l Reactions, Today in Crackdown
Turkish government has violated the right to life in jailed English teacher Halime Gulsu’s death, a recent report by human rights group concluded. Gülsu, an English teacher who was arrested on Feb. 20, 2018 for her alleged links to the Turkey’s Gülen group, died on...
by TurkeyPurge | May 20, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
A 47-year-old local journalist in Turkey’s Aydin province, Mustafa Yayla was arrested for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on social media, a charge that carries a sentence of between one and four years. Media reported Sunday that Yayla was indicted after...
by TurkeyPurge | May 20, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
A 7-months-old pregnant woman, identified as S.R.C., who was earlier removed from her job as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown against the opposition was detained during a police raid at her home. A member of the Trade Union of Employees in Public Health...
by TurkeyPurge | May 20, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Detention warrants were issued for 249 people as part of an anti-Gulenist investigation into the Foreign Ministry, media reported Sunday. Ankara Public Prosecutor’s Office claims that 249 people who entered procurement exam by the ministry between 2010 and 2013...
by TurkeyPurge | May 19, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Muhammed Koşar, a disabled public servant, has been given 25 months in prison for depositing money in the now-closed Islamic lender Bank Asya. Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu tweeted that Koşar was dismissed from his job after a coup...
by TurkeyPurge | May 19, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
A political scientist from Turkey’s Sakarya University has allegedly been investigated by Turkish authorities over a book he wrote on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in 2017. According to tweets posted by the academic himself, he was also denied professor...
by TurkeyPurge | May 17, 2019 | Human Tragedies
Yusuf Akkuş, a Turkish man wih 70 percent disability rating, has been put in pre-trial detention in Malatya prison on terror charges. According to a Twitter account run by Akkuş’s brother, he had a stroke in 2016 in Syria. When he was brought back to Turkey by...
by TurkeyPurge | May 17, 2019 | Human Tragedies
Mehmet Keleş, a 44-year-old Turkish man who used to work as a public relations specialist at a Gülen-affiliated high school in Eskişehir, has been given 19 years in prison on terror and coup charges. According to a twitter account, Keleş is currently being held in...
