5-year-old son of the imprisoned judge Fatih Canik died in a traffic accident while on his way to visit his father in a Kahramanmaras prison on May 19. According to the newly-established blog, Justice Held Hostage, Fatih’s wife Hanife and their two kids made some 750 km from the western province of Afyon to visit him […]
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A mother of three in the western province of Izmir, Fadime Danışman was arrested along with her 8-month-old baby after police failed to locate her husband, a teacher by profession, as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement. In a letter from Şakran Closed Prison in Izmir’s Aliağa district to Sözcü daily columnist Emin
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70-year-old Kemal Gun has lost 29 lbs [13 kilograms] since he started a hunger strike as part of his efforts to be given the dead body of his child who was killed during an air attack by Turkish miliary in Tunceli’s Dersim district on Nov 7, 2016. 11 individuals were killed during a bombardment against
Detention warrant was reportedly issued for 60-year-old construction worker, H. S., after police failed to locate his two children, wanted for their alleged use of ByLock mobile application. According to Aktif Haber online news portal, H.S.’s son and daughter, both teachers by profession, along with their spouses were caught up in Turkey’s post-coup dragnet as they are
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Aysun Aydemir, an English teacher who gave birth to a baby in an elective caesarean procedure, was detained at the hospital and subsequently arrested by a court and put in pretrial detention with a 3-day-old baby in Zonguldak province as part of a witch-hunt targeting the Gülen group, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding
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Bünyamin Aydoğan, a teacher who was dismissed by a decree issued by the Turkish government in the aftermath of a coup attempt on July 15, 2016, died on Friday evening in a pipeline construction accident in Kahramanmaraş province, the Hürriyet daily reported. According to the report, Aydoğan (39) died when a large pipe carried by
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Academic Nuriye Gülmen suffered from low blood pressure on May 8 or the 61st day in a hunger strike she has been staging along with a teacher, in protest of their dismissal under post-coup emergency rules. Joined by dismissed teacher Semih Özakça, Gülmen has been on hunger strike in front of a human rights memorial
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The 12-year-old T.K. has claimed asylum with the United Nations (UN) office in Saudi Arabia alone after his/her father was detained by Saudi officials as part of what many say President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ever-growing witch-hunt against the Gulen movement that has spread to overseas in the recent past. Yet, his/her refugee claim has been
