M. Emin Epçim, a 46-year-old teacher who was dismissed by a decree issued by the Turkish government in the aftermath of a coup attempt on July 15, 2016, died of heart attack at a construction site in Turkey’s Amasya district, pro-Kurdish HDP Deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu tweeted. According to Gergerlioğlu, Epçim had been working at […]
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Two graduates of Gulen-linked schools in Turkmenistan died of unknown causes last year, according to Canadian journalist Nick Ashdown. “The Diplomat has learned that two political prisoners in Turkmenistan have died of unknown causes in the last year, both of them among the graduates of the country’s Turkish schools who were arrested in 2016 and 2017,” Ashdown
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The 2019 European Archaeological Heritage Prize has been bestowed on prominent Turkish businessman and activist Osman Kavala who has been held in pre-trial detention in İstanbul’s notorious Silivri Prison since November 2017 on terror and coup charges. According to osmankavala.org, Mr Kavala was granted the prize “for promoting the social values of our shared heritage
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The Turkish Ministry of Interior has announced that a total of 41 former mayors have been removed from office and replaced by government-appointed trustees between July 2016 and March 2019, the Diken news website reported on Tuesday. According to the report, these dismissed mayors have thus far received some 260 years in prison on terrorism-related
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Four purge-victims who turned up in police custody after being missing since February 2019 have been sent to prison on terror charges after spending twelve days in police custody, the DW Türkçe reported. Families of the arrestees told the news agency that the lawyers and family members were prevented by the police from seeing the
A Turkish prosecutor on Tuesday demanded lengthy prison sentences for Cafer Tekin İpek and Melek İpek, the brother and the mother of Turkish businessman Akın İpek, on charges of membership in Gülen movement and violating tax law, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. The prosecutor demands 90 years for Tekin İpek and 20 years for
Bold Medya has released a video showing the negligence of police officers in the death of Gökhan Açıkkollu, a purged history teacher who died of a heart attack while under detention in 2016. [VIDEO] shows the moments history teacher Gokhan Acikkollu died of heart attack in prison Earlier in 2017, Turkey’s leading forensic medicine expert
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Ever since the purge in Turkey started in July 2016, thousands of Turks have fled the country to different parts of the world. Among those are high-ranking Turkish diplomats, academics, police officers, teachers and many others from different walks of life. And many of them have either experienced ill-treatment in custody, or even worse; subjected
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Hatice Erol, a 26-year-old Turkish woman who suffers from epilepsy and requires daily medication, has been held in pre-trial detention in Konya prison for over 10 months over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen movement. The movement is accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15, 2016. According to a Twitter account,
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World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) has called on Turkish government to investigate the allegations of torture and other ill-treatment happening across the country. The letter came days after the Şanlıurfa Bar Association claimed that 38 people who were detained on May 20 were subjected to ill treatment and torture. One police officer died in a
