Hüsamettin Özaydın, a father of four and an English language teacher who was removed from his job at a Siirt school, has reportedly passed away following a heart attack. According the Magduriyetler.com, a web portal that reports post-coup abuses, Özaydın was dismissed with the government’s post-coup emergency decree, No 672, in late October 2016. The […]
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A Turkish man has attacked a demonstration in Germany’s Nuremberg, held in solidarity with the children jailed along with their mothers in Turkey. In a video recording posted by journalist Fuat Baran on Twitter the other day, the assailant is heard swearing at the group before physically attacking some of them. Turkey Purge has failed
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A total of 2,756 people, including 105 academics, have been dismissed from state institutions by two new government decrees, known as a KHK, that went into effect on Sunday, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. The Turkish government issued two new decrees numbered 695 and 696 under the post-coup state of emergency, which were published
People who were imprisoned over “offenses against Constitutional order” are now required to wear dusty orange and gray jumpsuits, according to the government’s latest post-coup decree, issued early Sunday. “Those behind bars who were convicted of offences against the Constitutional order and who were arrested pending trial over similar charges will be brought to the
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Two new decress issued by the Turkish government on Sunday morning granted a whole scale immunity for all crimes, including murder, committed by civilians to supress a coup attempt on July 15, 2016 and “any event that is a continuation of it”. According to the decrees, numbered 695 and 696, these civilians can no longer
Fatma Bektaş, a 48-year-old Izmir woman has been in pretrial detention for the past 15 months despite her medical problems including Alzheimer. Detained as part of a police raid on a Quran teaching school in Izmir on Sept 27, 2016, Bektaş spent 3 days under police custody before being put in pretrial detention on Sept
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The number of complaints filed over post-coup rights abuses hit 103,276 on Dec 22, the government-established State of Emergency (OHAL) Procedures Investigation Commission said. Nearly 147,000 people have lost their jobs since last summer as part of the government’s crackdown in the aftermath of the July 15, 2016 failed coup, which targeted Turkey’s Gulen movement, Kurdish
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The mother of Ümit Horzum, a dismissed public servant who was reportedly abducted from his car in Ankara earlier this month, has asked for help from officials, in a video recording. “My son has been missing since Dec 6. Where did they take my son? What did my son do? Did he kill somebody? I
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Muhammed Eray Özkul, the 12-year-old son of the Zonguldak-based former police officer Ender Özkul who was jailed in the aftermath of the July 15, 2016 failed coup, is not responding to cancer treatment, according to his mother. “The illness relapses two times during chemotherapy. The doctor calls you to his room to give you the
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A Samsun couple, both judges who were earlier removed from their offices over alleged ties to the Gulen movement, were sentenced to 6 years and 3 months in prison. O.F.K. and his wife F.K. appeared in their final hearing, state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Dec 20. The couple pleaded not guilty to the charges
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