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Son of purge victim judge jumps to his death from Galata Tower over father’s imprisonment
Nahit Emre Güney, a 26-year-old university student, died on Wednesday (12. October 2022) after he jumped from the observation deck of Galata Tower, an İstanbul tourist destination, due to depression caused by the imprisonment of his father, former high judge, in a post-coup purge.
Emre, who was studying law at İstanbul University, was the son of Haşim Güney, a former member of the Council of State who was imprisoned in July 2016 after a failed coup took place in Turkey. Emre began to receive psychological treatment following the arrest of his father.
Haşim Güney was sentenced to 10 years in prison over the pretext of terrorism. He has been in prison for the past six years.
Haşim Güney (at left) was arrested with his colleagues a day after coup attempt on 16th July 2016 in front of Council of State (Supreme Adminisrative Court).
Hâlâ bu kıyıma sessiz misiniz?#NahitEmreGüney
— Gianluca Costantini (@channeldraw) October 15, 2022
6 yıldır Kırıkkale Keskin Cezaevinde hücrede tutulan KHK'lı eski Danıştay üyesi Haşim Güney'in hukuk öğrencisi olan oğlu Nahit Emre Güney (26), dün Galata Kulesi'nde intihar etti. pic.twitter.com/DLjn6TnYvA
Student jumps to his death from Galata Tower over father’s imprisonment https://t.co/0yj7BCIRrQ
— Turkish Minute (@TurkishMinuteTM) October 14, 2022
Purge-victim judge dies of cancer on 6. August 2022
Purge victim judge Abdurrahman Sakar who has been suffering from cancer: “I want to die”
Purge-victim Turkish judge dies of cancer
Jailed post-coup victim judge Mehmet Sait Demiröz dies after ICU hospitalization on 22.07.2022
Gürsel Ceylan, former member of the Council of State who was expelled after July 15 coup attempt, passed away on May 26, 2022.
VIDEO | A purge-victim woman judge: “The darkest day of the Turkish Judiciary”
The darkest day of the Turkish judiciary. A witness&victim of that night. My colleague &friend Elif told her own story in this short video low thousands of bright independent judges were declared terrorists in one night? https://t.co/pb7kWTPlMw
— kutlan menderes elmas (@kmelmas) July 15, 2021
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Former judge Zihni Doğan’s mother died due to traffic accident
Former judge Zihni Doğan’s mother died due to traffic accident on 8th March 2022.
Purge victim judge Zihni Doğan, former member of Court of Cassation was sentenced to 8 years 9 months in prison over the pretext of terrorism charges on 28 May 2019. Furthermore, court ruled for continuation of his detention. He has been kept in prison since July 2016.
Mustafa Dinç, former judge at the Council of State, arrested in Ankara over the pretext of terrorism conviction on 9. March 2022
A former judge at the Council of State, Turkey’s highest administrative court, was arrested in Ankara after a prison sentence was upheld, the Sözcü daily reported.
Photos showed former judge Mustafa Dinç in handcuffs with his head pushed down as he was detained by police officers on Wednesday, which attracted criticism as Dinç was not resisting the police officers.
Dinç was among the more than 4,500 judges and prosecutors who were expelled from their posts in the aftermath of a coup attempt in the country in July 2016 under the pretext of an anti-coup fight.
He stood trial on terrorism charges and was sentenced to seven years, six months on conviction of terrorist organization membership. The Supreme Court of Appeals recently upheld his sentence.
Dinç was sent to Sincan Prison in Ankara.
Source: https://www.turkishminute.com
Nurdan Gündüz, wife of the purge victim prosecutor İbrahim Gündüz, was buried in the Muslim cemetery of Kos after the married couple lost their lives at the beginning of December when trying to escape the Erdoğan government for Greece.
Nurdan Gündüz, wife of the Turkish prosecutor İbrahim Gündüz, was buried in the Muslim cemetery of Kos after the married couple lost their lives at the beginning of December when trying to escape the Erdoğan government for Greece.
Turkish authorities did not allow the relatives of the two victims to travel to Greece to identify and collect the bodies.
For this reason, Nurdan was buried in the Muslim cemetery of Kos.
In an emotional atmosphere, she was buried on Saturday morning as the identification of the body and the planned procedures had already been completed.
The burial of her husband İbrahim, right next to her, will follow in the next few days.
The whole process was undertaken by the Vakuf Kos Estate Management Organisation and its president, who showed particular sensitivity to the issue.
The ceremony was attended by a friend of the couple who lives permanently in Athens and who live broadcasted the funeral with his mobile phone to the relatives of the victims in Turkey, who even in this way mourned the loss of their loved ones.
The 36-year-old prosecutor remains in the morgue of Kos hospital and will be buried in the next few days when the procedures are completed.
The young couple were fired from public office, on the same charge, and jailed for 15 months in Osmaniye prison in southern Turkey.
He was released on bail but banned from travelling abroad.
In order not to return to prison again, İbrahim and Nurdan got married and decided to flee to Greece and seek political asylum.
In the early hours of December 2, the speedboat they were on board overturned due to high waves and mishandling of the captain, with the result that the five passengers, four men and one woman, were found in the water.
The Greek Coast Guard intervened immediately, however Ibrahim and Nurdan were pulled out dead.
While the body of the public prosecutor İbrahim Gündüz was not yet buried, another sad news came from his father. Father Mehmet Ali Gündüz passed away on 10. Januar 2022.Sources:
While the body of the late public prosecutor İbrahim Gündüz was not yet buried, another sad news came from his father. Father Mehmet Ali Gündüz passed away today. Rest in peace.
— kutlan menderes elmas (@kmelmas) January 10, 2022
I wish this would be the last suffer in TUR.@MedelEurope #KabulEtmiyoruz https://t.co/fFffhrS2pQ
The Erdogan Regime freezes the assets of hunderds of persons including some judges and prosecutors on 24. December 2021
With the decision published by the Ministry of Treasury and Finance in the Official Gazette on December 24, 2021, it was decided to freeze the assets of 771 real and legal persons, on the grounds that there were reasonable suspicions that they were financing terrorism. The decision no further personalized evidence.
Interestingly, the decision also included the names of some judges and prosecutors who were dismissed after the controversial coup attempt of 15 July 2016.
However, for the last 5.5 years, no evidence or accusation regarding financing of terrorism has been brought in the cases regarding the dismissed judges and prosecutors. They were just accused of membership in a terrorist organization.
This last decision to freeze assets can be thought of as a kind of threat and intimidation, among the judges and prosecutors who were expelled and who managed to leave the country and got asylum protection in several western countries, especially those who took part in investigations that disturbed the government in the past.