Suna Uslu, 29-year old Turkish woman and the mother of 1.5-year-old Asım Uslu (pictured above) has been sentenced to 7,5 years in prison for working at a now-closed student dormitory affiliated with the Gülen group, which is accused of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. According to an e mail sent to Turkeypurge.com editors by […]
Mehmet Kosar, a father of two and a 38-year-old computer teacher in Mugla’s Fethiye who was dismissed from his job over links to the Gulen movement, has killed himself days after he was released from prison pending trial over connections to Gulenists. Local media said that Kosar hanged himself to an iron bar attached to
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A Sinop teacher, pregnant to her second child, as well as her husband have been under police custody for the past 7 days, according to a social media account. @Magduriyet_TR1 , a Twitter account claimed to have knowledge on the matter, said Monday that the teacher, identified as Ayse K. were detained with her husband 7
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An expert in forensic medicine who shared a cell with Gökhan Açıkkollu, a teacher who was tortured to death while under detention in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt in Turkey in July 2016, has said the teacher was hurt more by the insults than the physical violence he was subjected to. Dr. Gürol
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, Aktif Haber online news portal said Thursday. Four members of the Aydin family died while a woman from the same family, identified as
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Gökhan Açıkkollu was a history teacher in İstanbul. What makes him memorable is that he is one of the hunreds of thousands of people who have been victimized by an ongoing purge carried out by the Turkish government since a coup attempt on July 15, 2016. Açıkkollu was detained on July 24, 2016 on coup and
Gökhan Açıkkollu, a history teacher who was tortured to death while in police custody in the wake of a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016 over alleged membership in the Gülen group, was found innocent one-and-a-half years later and “reinstated” to his job. The reinstatement decision, numbered E.2561776, was made by the Education
Ismet Sözen, an elementary school teacher until he was dismissed by a government decree issued under post-coup emergency rule in 2016, is now earning his keep by working as a night-shift receptionist at a hotel in Bursa province. According to Cumhuriyet newspaper, Sözen was dismissed by the government decree, like some 40,000 other teachers. With
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A Samsun woman, identified as B.D. was detained after police failed to locate her husband as part an investigation in to the Gulen movement, media reported Saturday. According to Grihat online news portal, B.D., already a mother of three, was detained after a police raid at her home. Police had initially come for B.D.’s husband,
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An Izmir couple, both teachers, were put in pretrial detention over their links to the Gulen movement as grand family members are now parenting their newborn twins and 7-year-old daughter, according to media. The physics teacher, identified as O.K. was detained along with his wife S.K., a primary school teacher, as part of an investigation
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