Human Tragedies

A 35-year old Turkish woman, named Esma Uludağ, who fled Turkish government’s post-coup crackdown to Greece, passed away on Saturday night due to a heart attack. Esma Uludağ, mother of three children, aged 3, 7 and 10 years old, worked as a civil servant in a district governor’s office in İzmir province until she was […]

Halime Gülsu, a teacher who was arrested on Feb. 20, 2018 for alleged links to the Turkey’s Gülen group, died on Saturday in a Mersin prison, an autopsy report of her death confirmed. Gülsu reportedly suffered from systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), a heterogeneous, inflammatory, multisystem autoimmune disease in which antinuclear antibodies occur often years before clinical symptoms.

Mehmet Yavaş, a retired teacher has been held in a prison in Denizli province for almost nineteen months over his alleged links to the Gülen group, which accused of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. According to a social media user named Kaya Tunca, Yavaş is 70 years old and suffers from hernia and migraine. His wife,

Serap Öztürk, a Turkish woman and the mother of a 2-month-old baby (pictured above) has been arrested by a Turkish court over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which is accused of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. According to a twitter account named @magduriyetlert, Öztürk was detained on March 21 in İstanbul and sent

Ümit Horzum, a former public servant who was removed from his job at Turkish Accreditation Agency (TURKAK) in a government’s post-coup emergency decree, has been missing for 111 days while his wife has found his car abandoned with a deflated tire in Ankara. “WITH MY OWN EFFORTS, I found my husband’s car with one of

On March 2, 2018, four members of a Turkish family were killed in a car crash while driving back from an Erzurum prison where another member of the family is being held as a post-coup prisoner. Today, that prisoner was released for a day to pay a visit to the graves of his family members.

Renowned Turkish academic and political scientist Prof. Dr. Sedat Laçiner, who was arrested in the wake of a military coup on July 15, 2016, has stated that “I respond to what is said about me, and I don’t run from either prosecution or debate. But the accusations must be a bit rational and fair. I got

Şahabettin Erdoğan, a 45-year-old former police officer who was suspended over his alleged ties to the Gulen movement, has passed away following a heart attack, according to media. Erdoğan headed to Ortaca State Hospital in Mugla after he felt a strong pain in his chest at around 5.30 pm on Saturday. He collapsed at the