by TurkeyPurge | Dec 8, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Bekir Bayram, a 72-year-old imprisoned Turkish man with heart disease, was pictured on Tuesday on the way the Isparta State Hospital for a coronary artery bypass surgery. According to Turkish journalist Sevinç Özarslan, a second coronary artery stent was placed in to...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 7, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
A mother took her 5-year-old son to prison with her after being jailed over alleged links to the Gulen group, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. The group denies any involvement. According to journalist Sevinç Özarslan, Emine...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 6, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Yusuf Özmen, a purge-victim cancer patient who was arrested in March 2021 to serve a sentence on a Gülen-linked conviction, has reportedly been held in a solitary confinement at an İstanbul prison ever since. According to Turkish journalist Sevinç Özarslan, Özmen’s...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 3, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
İbrahim Gündüz, a purge-victim Turkish judge, and his wife died after a dinghy transporting migrants from the coast of Turkey sank on Friday near the Greek island of Kos, Greek authorities said. According to a report by Turkish Journalist Sevinç Özarslan, three others...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 3, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Yurdal Gökçe, a police officer who was dismissed by a decree issued by the Turkish government in the aftermath of a coup attempt on July 15, 2016, died on November 29 in a construction accident in Gebze, journalist Sevinç Özarslan reported. According to the report,...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 2, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
An İstanbul court has ruled to release 10 military cadets from prison after five years of imprisonment over involvement in the coup attempt in July 16, 2016. The reunion between the purge-victim cadets and their families was captured on camera and the result was,...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 30, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish court has ruled to place Metin Gürcan, a politician from the Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA), in pre-trial detention on accusations of “political and military espionage,” the Hurriyet daily news reported. According to the report, Gürcan denied the...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 30, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
A total of 24,253 military members have been dismissed from the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) due to alleged links to the Gülen group since a coup attempt in July 2016, according to public relations officer Maj. Pınar Kara. Kara also said at a press conference in Tuesday...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 30, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
An indictment prepared by an Ankara prosecutor is seeking up to 15 years in prison for the former rector of Ankara’s Gazi University, Süleyman Büyükberber, due to their alleged links to the Gülen group, which the Turkish government blames for a failed coup in...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 28, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Tuğba Arıcı, a Turkish social media user, has tweeted that she was subjected to a strip search while in police detention for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on social media. “… later I figured it out that it was for insulting the president. They...
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