R. G. Çetinkaya, the daughter of jailed Turkish journalist Tuncer Çetinkaya, has written a letter to Turkish Minute in which she explained the deteriorating health of her father, who suffers from a serious kidney problem as well as other ailments and called on Turkish authorities to provide him with immediate medical care. Çetinkaya is among […]
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Elif Coşkun, who just gave birth on Monday night in Turkey’s western province of İzmir, will reportedly be taken into custody at the hospital due to her links to the Gülen movement, according to an opposition deputy. Raising concerns about the situation of Coşkun from his Twitter account, main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) İstanbul
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Detained in the southern province of Isparta as part of a post-coup investigation, a woman, identified with initials Ö.A., has been transferred to a prison in Siirt, an eastern province 1,291 kilometers away from home. According to Aktif Haber online news portal, Ö.A. was taken into custody in Isparta before she was transferred to Siirt
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Arrested for raising donations on behalf of a Gülen movement-linked charity, 62-year-old religion and ethics teacher Hüseyin Pembe passed away after his battle with cancer in prison on June 1. With the starting date for his imprisonment still unknown, Pembe has been under arrest in Samsun prison for at least four months. According to Turkish
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Şule Akkaya, a primary school teacher who was detained on June 1 as part of an investigation into Turkey’s Gülen group, reportedly covers 40 to 50 km twice a day to breastfeed her one-year-old baby in Zonguldak. According to TR724 news portal, Şule Akkaya, whose husband has been held in prison for almost eleven months
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Esra Demir, 31-year-old teacher who gave birth to a baby at a Batman hospital on Sunday, was reportedly detained by police and taken to a police station with her newborn baby on Monday as part of an investigation into Turkey’s Gülen group. Republican People’s Party (CHP) İstanbul deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu said in a tweet that
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A 9-year-old girl was separated from her foster family as the adoptive father is being under investigation over his alleged links to the Gulen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15, 2016 failed coup attempt. An official from Turkey’s Ministry of Family and Social Policy in late November, 2016 told media that
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Detained over coup charges in late February, Senay Olgun Saglam, a mother of one who is pregnant to her second child, has been suffering from weight loss due to poor dietary standards in prison. According to information from Aktifhaber online news portal and several social media accounts, Saglam faces a risky pregnancy due to malnutrition
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