Human Tragedies

A group of police officers waited outside of private Hizmet Hospital in Istanbul’s Bahcelievler district in order to detain Yasemin Özkul, who gave birth to her third child just several hours ago, according to Turkish media. Police left Hizmet Hospital only after main opposition Republican Peoples’ Party deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu reacted to the police presence […]

An unidentified teacher, with 35.5 years of experience in education according to his own telling, has been working as a farmer at an olive grove since he was dismissed from his job under a post-coup emergency rule. A video that has recently emerged on social media shows a dismissed teacher elaborating on his life after

Turkish teacher Fatma Ozturk was detained just after she gave birth to her baby at Ege Umut Hospital in Manisa’s Turgutlu district while police handcuffed her to a bed she is resting on. Police detained Ozturk over her alleged links to the Gulen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15, 2016 coup

A 60-year-old Turkish man whose son has been kept in İstanbul Silivri Prison for over 10 months on coup charges, has walked a total of 309 km in 17 days as part of a “March of Justice” kicked off by the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) on June 15. Veysel Kılıç’s son was Air

Ali Osman Karahan, an 86-year-old Turkish man with walking and speaking difficulties has been kept in an Isparta prison for almost 12 months over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which Turkish authorities accuse of being behind a failed coup attempt in July of last year. A video footage, posted by Karahan’s grandson on Twitter, shows the

Dilek Sağlam, a teacher and mother of a 10-month-old baby, has been under arrest since June 12 because her husband could not be found by the police, TR724 reported on Tuesday. Sağlam has a 5-year-old daughter who is unable to continue her treatment for shortness of breath due to her mother’s arrest. Sağlam’s father was told that