Turkey Purge

When a 9-year-old girl finally got to see her imprisoned father again, cameras were rolling, and so were the tears. According to a video footage posted by Turkish journalist Sevinç Özarslan, Bilal Konakçı, a purge-victim bomb disposal expert who was jailed on terror and coup charges in early 2021, has recently been released from prison. […]

Kurdish politician Aysel Tuğluk was released from prison late on Thursday night after a medical report confirmed that she was not fit to stay in prison due to dementia, the impaired ability to remember, think, or make decisions that interferes with doing everyday activities. The 57-year-old woman was arrested in December 2016  and was diagnosed with

Şebnem Korur Fincancı, the head of Turkey’s doctors’ union, was sent to prison by a court on Thursday, according ot the Turkish media. Fincancı, 63,  was initially detained at her home in İstanbul on Wednesday on allegations of spreading “terrorist propaganda” after she urged a probe into the army’s alleged use of chemical weapons against

Turkish police have detained at least 543 people in 59 provinces across Turkey for “providing financial support” to families of imprisoned “Gulenists” over alleged links to the 2016 coup attempt. According to the state-run Anadolu news agency, the suspects are accused of either receiving financial assistance or distributing financial assistance sent by Gülen followers abroad

A 26-year-old university student jumped to his death from the observation deck of Galata Tower on Wednesday reportedly due to depression caused by the imprisonment of his father in a post-coup purge. The youngster, name Emre Güney, was the son of Haşim Güney, a former member of the Council of State who was imprisoned in

Turkish governments is officially seeking the extradition of Germany-based Turkish journalist Cevheri Güven whose weekly Youtube videos attract hundreds of thousands viewers around the world. Güven reports extensively on the Turkish government’s corruption and murky relations with mafia and crime groups,. According to a Friday report in the pro-government Sabah daily, Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization

At least fourteen more military cadets who had been incarcerated in İstanbul’s Silivri prison for over six years on coup charges, were released on September 30 based on a recent ruling by Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals. Turkey experienced a controversial military coup attempt on the night of July 15, 2016 which, according to many,

This Kurdish youngster, named Abdülillah Sarıtaş, is in the 6th year of his imprisonment over alleged involvement in the coup attempt in 2016. He has been in İstanbul’s notorious Silivri prison. According to a report by journalist Sevinç Özarslan, Sarıtaş was only in the 2nd month of his mandatory military service on the night of

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has rejected an application for release filed by Kadri Sancar, a 22-year-old Kurdish youngster who has been held in İzmir prison since 2015. “I just want to die. Constitutional Court has rejected our application. My brother has been in prison since the age of 17. My mother burst into tears after receving