M.O., a dismissed teacher and father of two kids with 92 and 98 percent disability ratings, has reportedly been kept in an Antalya prison for almost 4 months over alleged links to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15. Speaking to Aktifhaber.com news portal, the wife of M.O. […]
A former research assistant at Ankara University’s faculty of law, Cenk Yiğiter, found a way to get around a post-coup witch hunt, as he took a nationwide university entrance exam in order to get back to the grind. Yiğiter was sacked by a government decree along with many other colleagues on Jan. 6. He joined
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Ali Özer, a 48-year-old doctor who was jailed due to his alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, has died of a heart attack in Çorum Prison. Özer had been the deputy chief physician at Ankara Nallıhan State Hospital. The doctor died at the Çorum Teaching and Research Hospital, where he was taken after suffering
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Twin daughters of the Istanbul-based Şengün family were handed over to their 65-year-old grandmother as both E. Şengün and his wife F. were arrested after being kept under detention for 30 days, on Nov. 2, 2016. The children were only 7-months-old when their parents were jailed and they are about to turn one with no
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Serkan Gölge, a Turkish-born NASA scientist who was arrested as part of Turkey’s post-coup crackdown against perceived enemies, is now allowed to see the sun only for an hour a day, as he is being kept in pre-trial detention in an Istanbul prison. He is expected to appear in the first hearing of his trial
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Seventy-year-old Ahmet Akdoğan has been kept in solitary confinement for almost seven months over alleged links to the Gülen movement, which Turkish authorities accuse of being behind a failed coup attempt in July of last year. According to the Aktif Haber news website, Akdoğan was arrested by an Uşak court after the failed coup and
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“I go to the prosecutor’s office every week and beg them, ‘Please I need my husband.’ I tell them, ‘Please, he can come [to the police station] every day to check in, he has no place to escape, he is not even guilty.’ He can sign in every day. But I just want him beside
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