Upon Turkish authorities’ reluctance to start an investigation into the abduction of Murat Okumus, a 40-year-old accountant who was a manager at the government-closed Sifa University Hospital in Izmir, his mother is now asking for help from the government officials. Releasing a video footage on Sunday, Okumuş’s mother said she has not heard from her […]
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Hatice Avan, who gave birth to a baby in the western Turkish province of Denizli on Thursday, was detained on Friday, despite her doctor’s objection, over alleged links to the Gülen movement, which is accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016. Avan, who used to work at
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The 28-year-old Nurhayat Yildiz miscarried her twins in prison and the dead bodies of her babies were not returned to any of her family members. Arrested following her detention on Aug 29, 2016 over ByLock mobile app, Yildiz lost her twins in 19th week of her pregnancy on Oct 6, 2016. The whereabouts of the dead
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Once an inspiring educator to his pupils, a Batman teacher was detained with her hands cuffed behind back as a perceived enemy of the state, his wife said in a letter to Turkish media on With the names of both the teacher and his wife remaining anonymous, the details of a recent police raid on
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The 69-year-old Hasan Tatli passed away after a heart attack he suffered during the ‘March of Justice’, a 250-mile walk the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) started against the government’s post-coup rights violations five days ago. Started a day after the arrest of CHP deputy Enis Berberoglu, the protest is expected to last some 23
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Özlem Konakçı, the wife of former bomb disposal expert Bilal Konakçı, was detained over her alleged links to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 2016 coup attempt, on June 9. Bilal was retired from his position at İzmir Police Department after he lost his right hand and both eyes
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Tuba Kaya, a 27-year-old reporter from the now-closed Zaman daily, was arrested on Sept. 19 after her ex-husband lodged a complaint claiming that she was a member of Turkey’s Gülen group, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15, 2016. Kaya, who is in the 10th month of her arrest,
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Fatma Cetin, an Erzurum teacher who was earlier dismissed from public school as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown against the Gülen movement, has been under arrest along with her premature baby, Sozcu columnist Emin Colasan revealed. Cetin’s husband, who had been dismissed as a police officer over similar charges, was also imprisoned 11 months
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Zehra Elbir, a former court clerk who was earlier dismissed from her job in the government’s post-coup purge of state institutions, was detained only 40 days after she gave birth to her second child during a visit to her husband in prison. Eril Elbir, Zehra’s husband and a former police officer who was also dismissed
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A 60-year-old Turkish man whose son has been kept in İstanbul Silivri Prison for over 10 months on coup charges, attended a “March of Justice” kicked off by the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) on Thursday in order to demand his son’s release, Sözcü daily reported. The daily identified the man as “Veysel Amca”
