PURGE, POLITICS, AND HUNGER

Report: Four Years On, Still No Remedy For Turkey’s Purge Victims

Four years after the enactment of the first government decree to dismiss public workers, the situation has only grown unbearable for 150,000 people amid a lack of prospect for a remedy.

Abdullah Ayasun
8 min readJul 14, 2020

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Turkey’s academics and students protest a crackdown on a well-known university in Istanbul in this archived photo taken after the 2016 coup attempt.

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Abdullah Ayasun

Boston-based journalist and writer. Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. On art, culture, politics and everything in between. X: @abyasun