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Purge victim buried in a hurry, jailed husband not allowed to attend funeral: report

January 13, 2021

Fatma Görmez, 43, a former teacher fired from her job by an emergency decree-law who passed away yesterday from multiple health problems, was hurriedly...

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ECtHR rules rights violated in first purge case from Turkey

December 15, 2020

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has said the rights of a civil servant who was fired in a purge carried out by...

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Purged police chief released from prison 7 months after cancer diagnosis dies

November 24, 2020

Former police chief Ümit Gökhasan, one of more than 130,000 civil servants dismissed from their jobs as part of a massive purge carried out...

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Single man fired from gov’t service for sending kids he doesn’t have to Gülen-linked school

July 21, 2020

Muhammed Zekeriya Özdil, a single man with no child, says according to the Inquiry Commission on the State of Emergency Measures (OHAL Commission) he...

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State-run bank cancels client’s credit card due to dismissal from state job in post-coup purge

May 9, 2020

Turkey’s state-run Halkbank has admitted that it canceled a credit card last year due to the fact that the owner of the card was dismissed from...

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Purged Turkish colonel sent to Libya, killed in bombing, buried secretly: report

February 23, 2020

A colonel from the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) who was forced to retire from service as part of a government-led purge was recalled to serve in...

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Wife reacts in anger as purge victim posthumously reinstated to job by Turkish authorities

February 12, 2020

Turkey’s State of Emergency (OHAL) Commission has posthumously reinstated a union worker who was dismissed by a government decree in November 2016, causing his widow to...

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Insurance company AKsigorta refuses to pay auto claim for purge victim

January 18, 2020

AKsigorta, a Turkish insurance company, has rejected a claim for damages sustained in an accident by one of its insureds on the grounds that the claimant...

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