Human Tragedies

A 22-month-old child who suffers from Down Syndrome is living in jail along with his mother after both his mother and father were imprisoned in Konya over alleged links to the Gülen movement, a report said on Saturday. According to AktifHaber.com website, prison conditions are not appropriate for baby Enis, who suffered gastric bleeding when he […]

Ibrahim Eski, a 31-year-old police officer who was suspended from his job due to his alleged links to the Gülen movement, committed suicide on Tuesday. Failed to hear from the father of two for a while, Eski’s relatives broke into his home in Sakarya where they found his hanged body. According to media, Eski was

A Turkish man named Faysal Ugar has been held in police custody since September 22 despite lack of an existing detention warrant about him, according to a tweet posted by the man’s brother, Engi Ugar. “My brother, Faysal Ugar, left yesterday for Friday prayer. They told us that despite lack of a detention warrant, he

Hatayi Demir, an elementary school teacher until she was dismissed by a government decree issued under post-coup emergency rule last year, is now earning her keep by working as a beekeeper in a village in Tunceli province. According to Duvar news portal, Demir was first suspended and ultimately dismissed by the government decree, like her

Buket Erdoğan, the daughter of the recently-deceased jurist Mustafa Erdoğan said the deputies as well as the newspapers she tried to reach out to help her father ignored her calls. A former Supreme Court of Appeals member, Erdoğan was imprisoned over links to the Gulen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15,

Fatma Turan, a 44-year-old nurse who was dismissed under Turkey’s post-coup purge of state institutions, has been working at a tobacco farm to earn her family’s living. Turan was removed from her job along with her husband Özdemir Aydin, also a hospital worker, under a post-coup emergency decree. They were both detained in police operations

A Turkish woman, whose identity remains anonymous, has said in a recent video recording that she miscarried her baby due to the stress she experienced under custody. The details about the video, recently shared by social media accounts that often make postings on post-coup rights violations, are still unknown and Turkey Purge is not able

Muharrem Sağlar, a Bingöl-based former teacher who was retired after he survived colon cancer, has been under arrest for more than 5 months and his daughter, a 100 hundred disabled girl shows anxiety as she misses her father. According to a video recording posted on social media very recently, Sağlar’s family has been going through

“My father has been diagnosed with liver cancer and needs immediate treatment. He is now being kept at the detention ward of İzmir Training and Research Hospital. Neither my mother nor anyone else is allowed to keep him company. All I want is to see him free and healthy,” Sinan Özcerit, son of a purge-victim