Human Tragedies

Birol Kay, an electrician who was arrested in early August 2016 on coup charges, was allegedly rushed to the hospital with a heart attack on Thursday. A social media user with the username “@demokrat342” on Thursday took to Twitter to claim that Kaywho has been held in a prison in Edirne for the past 15 months, […]

A social media user with the username “@sercancan32151” on Tuesday took to Twitter to claim that the woman in the photo above has recently been arrested and sent to a Turkish prison on coup charges. According to the twitter user, the woman had a baby with congenital heart defect. His husband is also claimed to have been

A 15-year-old girl, identified only by her given name Sevgi, has been ordered to be separated from her foster family as her adoptive father has been briefly arrested over alleged ties to the Gulen movement. Adopted when she was only 5 years old, Sevgi now faces going back to the Gumushane orphanage she left 10

When a 15-year-old boy finally got to see his imprisoned journalist father again, cameras were rolling, and so were the tears. Five months ago, his father Gökmen Ulu, a reporter for Turkey’s Sözcü daily, was put in pre-trial detention. After all their time apart, the father was released on pending trial on Wednesday, The reunion between the

Taner Nakıboğlu, the owner of government-seized Naksan Holding, a Turkey-based packing company, said during a hearing on Tuesday that before his company was confiscated, he was the richest businessmen in Gaziantep province; yet his family now lives on the breadline. “I once owned Europe’s biggest packing company. And I was the richest businessman in Gaziantep.

Muhammed Eray Özkul, the 12-year-old son of the Zonguldak-based former police officer Ender Özkul, has been diagnosed with cancer after his father was jailed in Turkish government’s post-coup dragnet. The father worked as a police officer for 15 years until he was suspended on the accusations of having links to the Gulen movement on Sept,

A group of police officers are reportedly waiting outside the delivery room in Ankara Private Middle East Hospital in order to detain Ü. Monos, who just gave birth, according to a tweet posted by @magdurmesajiTr. According to the tweet, Monos is an english teacher and is sought by police over her alleged link to Turkey’s

Dr. Şahin Alpay, one of 280 journalists currently in Turkish prisons, expressed thanks to politicians and local and foreign colleagues who have objected to the unfair arrest and imprisonment of journalists and writers in Turkey, in the first letter he has been able to write from prison, while expressing disappointment with those who have refrained from

The 55-year-old mother of an imprisoned Turkish woman said in a Twitter video that she has been left to look after her grandchildrens after the Turkish government imprisoned her daughter as well as her son over alleged links to the Gülen group, which the government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt last year. “I am

Büşra Atalay, a Turkish woman who has previously been dismissed from her job over alleged Gülen links, lost her unborn child when she was detained and interrogated at an İstanbul hospital on Thursday. Atalay was detained by police at İstanbul Pendik Yüzyıl Hospital on Thursday over her alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which the