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21 Mayıs 2019 Salı

Sakarya police detain wife, daughter of purge-victim computer science professor

Wife and daughter of Ahmet Turan Özcerit, a computer science professor who died of cancer in Feb. 2018 after spending some 13 months under arrest on coup charges, has been detained by police on similar charges.

According to tweets posted by Özcerit’s son on Tuesday, Esra Özcerit and Sena Özcerit are currently being held in police custody in Sakarya province.

Ahmet Turan Özcerit was a UK-educated computer science professor. He had spent some 13 months under arrest as part of the government’s post-coup witch hunt since July 15, 2016. Mr Özcerit passed away of liver cancer.

Turan Özcerit obtained his master and PhD diplomas from the UK’s Sussex University before he started working at Sakarya University’s Faculty of Computer and Information Science. He was an associate professor at Sakarya University when the government dismissed him from the office over ties to the Gulen movement on Sep 1, 2016.

When he was dismissed he had already been jailed. While under pretrial detention, Özcerit was diagnosed with cancer in his liver and intestines. His son Sinan Özcerit has regularly shared updates regarding his father’s time in prison and about the academic’s ultimate release from prison to a hospital.



from Turkey Purge https://turkeypurge.com/sakarya-police-detain-wife-daughter-of-purge-victim-computer-science-professor

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