by TurkeyPurge | Nov 4, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Hüsamettin Uğur, a former member of Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals, has been isolated in a one-person cell in a Kırıkkale prison since a failed coup in July 2016. After the coup attempt in July 2016, Turkey disbarred some 4,500 judges and prosecutors and imprisoned...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 3, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for at least 100 people, including medical doctors, professors and teaching assistants, due to their alleged links to the Gülen group, which the government accuses of masterminding a coup...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 2, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Tens of protestors gathered in nine major European cities, including Frankfurt, Cologne, Paris, and London, to demand the release of sick prisoners in Turkish prisons, including Ayşe Özdoğan, an imprisoned woman with stage 4 maxillary sinus cancer. According to...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 2, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Doğan Akhanlı, a Turkish-born German author, died of cancer on October 31, at the age of 64 in Berlin. Akhanlı, born in 1957 in Turkey, has lived in Cologne as a freelance author since 1992. Before fleeing to Germany, he was arrested several times in Turkey on...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 2, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
At least seven people, including 1 prosecutor and 3 judges, were detained while allegedly trying to flee Turkey’s post-coup crackdown to Greece, the Kronos news portal reported. According to the report, the judges and the prosecutor were dismissed from their jobs...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 30, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish police have so far detained at least eleven Syrian nationals for posting Tik Tok videos on social media showing them eating bananas in an effort to condemn racism and discrimination in Turkey. Syrians are accused of “inciting or humiliating the [Turkish]...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 30, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Devrim Ayık, an imprisoned journalist with advanced Crohn’s disease, has regularly been denied release from prison, according to the Yeni Yaşam newspaper. Ayık also has permanent vision loss in one eye. Crohn’s disease is a type of inflammatory bowel...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 30, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
The Turkish Ministry of Education has dismissed at least 41 public officials over alleged links to the Gulen group, which the government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. The group denies any involvement. According to the report, investigations are...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 28, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
A Kırşehir court has ruled for continuation of imprisonment of Hakan Kanat, a 40-year-old Turkish teacher with stage 3 thyroid cancer. According to the Turkish media, Kanat has been in prison since July 24, 2016. In 2018, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 28, 2021 | Today in Crackdown
Neşide Güllü, 53 year old Turkish woman and the mother of one of Turkey’s purge-victim military cadets, died of heart attack on the sixth day of the detention of his son over alleged links to a failed coup attempt in 2016. According to a tweet posted by...
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