Eyüp Öztürk, a 17-year-old boy with 99-percent disability was shot dead by his mother S.B., media said Friday. Denizli mother killed herself after shooting her son in the head who had cerebral palsy –permanent movement disorder caused by damaged brain parts. Eyup’s father, I.O., who got divorced from S.B. a year ago, was earlier discharged from his […]
Ahmet Turan Özcerit, a UK-educated computer science professor who spent as long as 13 months under arrest as part of the government’s post-coup witch hunt, has passed away of liver cancer. The academic’s son Sinan Özcerit said Monday that his father died at hospital. Turan Özcerit obtained his master and PhD diplomas from the UK’s
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Vahyettin Yahya Bayat, a 65-year-old Turkish businessman under arrest as part of an investigation into the Gulen group, passed away after a heart attack on Friday morning, the TR724 news portal reported. Bayat lost his life in his cell in Diyarbakır Prison following a heart attack. It was reported that Bayat has been suffering severe
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Ali Ünlü, a 42-year-old former police officer who was earlier dismissed from his job as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown, died of heart attack in a refugee camp in Stuttgart, according to media and people with knowledge of the incident. Ünlü, one of over 150,000 people who have lost their jobs over alleged ties
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Mesut Dinçer, a former court clerk dismissed and later arrested by the Turkish government over coup charges, has died of multiple sclerosis (MS) several weeks after he was released from prison pending trial, the TR724 news portal reported. Dinçer was dismissed from his job after a coup attempt on July 15, 2016 and subsequently put
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A group of soldiers from the Turkish army are reportedly waiting outside the delivery room in İzmir’s Çiğli state hospital in order to take ‘Gülenist’ Ayşe Ateş back to prison after giving birth, according to main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu. Ateş, a public servant who was dismissed from his job and later
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Jailed father of Berk Görmez, a 14-year-old boy who died of intestinel cancer last week, could attend his son’s funeral only with his hands cuffed during the ceremony. “They did not take off Bekir Gormez’s handcuffs during the funeral for his son Berk Gormez who died before he was allowed to visit his father,” human
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An Istanbul lawyer, identified with her initials O.E.H., was put in pretrial detention along with her three-month-old baby as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement, media said. According to TR724 online news portal, O.E.H. stopped by the Tokat police station upon an earlier call from police regarding a probe on Dec 27. The
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Halime Kaman, a Turkish national who gave birth some 25 days ago at an İstanbul hospital, was reportedly arrested by an İstanbul court on Friday, according to several Turkish media outlets and Twitter accounts. According to the @magduriyetlertr, Kaman gave birth to a baby in İstanbul on December 1, 2017, and was detained by police on
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Fatma Bektaş, a 48-year-old Izmir woman has been in pretrial detention for the past 15 months despite her medical problems including Alzheimer. Detained as part of a police raid on a Quran teaching school in Izmir on Sept 27, 2016, Bektaş spent 3 days under police custody before being put in pretrial detention on Sept
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