Under arrest for 103 days as part of a post-coup investigation into the Gülen movement, E.D. was released only after he proved that the $1 bill police founded at his office and seized as an evidence had been given during his son’s circumcision ceremony. According to the Turkish government, one dollar bills are an encrypted […]
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A 12-year-old child has died of brain cancer several months after Turkish border agents seized his and his parents’ passports at İstanbul Atatürk Airport, causing the family to abandon their plans to receive cancer treatment in Cuba. According to a series of tweets posted by Turkish journalist Sıtkı Özcan on Tuesday, the family’s passports were
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Ruled on the arrest of a mother of three children, a Kırşehir judge has threatened the relatives of the woman asking them to give up their complaints otherwise her 3-month-old would be the next target Yasemin Dağıstan and his husband Taner Dağıstan was dismissed from their positions as a result of Turkey’s post-coup purge which
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A video shared on Monday on social media shows five children left alone in tears in front of Sincan Prison in Ankara after their mother was detained while they were visiting their father in prison. “Leaving children alone in such a situation is against the Convention on the Rights of the Child and all related
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A video widely shared on Twitter on Friday night shows patrol teams on streets of Diyarbakır’s Sur district forcing school kids and their parents to remove their coats and show their naked bellies to ensure they carry no explosives. In the video that apparently was recorded by other police officers in patrol car during days
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A police officer who was suspended from his job due to alleged links to the Gülen movement committed suicide on Saturday shortly after he was asked to turn in his police ID and service revolver. Police officer Sadullah K. committed suicide with his service revolver at the police station in the Anatolia Courthouse in İstanbul’s
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A lawyer for two imprisoned police chiefs claimed on Friday that the two men, who had been privy to the secrets of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, were interrogated under the influence of drugs and torture, denying the accuracy of their statements. Lawyer Kemal Şimşek wrote on his Twitter account that two deputy chiefs from the
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“My children want to make a video call as they did when their father was away in the past. I ran out of excuses,” a Turkish woman whose businessman husband was arrested over terrorism charges in the aftermath of the July 15 coup attempt says in a letter to a news portal. Her letter came
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“…Thought a lot about committing suicide. Even though I chose to live for my children, I no longer expect anything from life,” B.U., a former accounting instructor said, pouring out his heart when asked only a couple of warm-up questions before our interview. Dismissed following an administrative investigation at a high school in Turkey’s western
“My husband has cancer and needs special treatment. It is unlikely that he can get that under his current poor prison conditions. Please hear my voice. Anyone who has a conscience! Please help me and my husband. Please help us before it’s too late!” reads a letter sent to Turkey Purge by the wife of
