Police Chief Ahmet Tatar passed away due to negligence after his heart attack he suffered in Osmaniye Prison, where he was not released despite his heart disease.

Businessman and education volunteer Yusuf Bekmezci was arrested despite being 80 years old. He struggled with illness in prison. He had a heart attack while undergoing cataract surgery and died on February 20, 2022. His family was not allowed to see him.Bekmezci had Alzheimer’s disease, as well as blood pressure and osteolysis disorders.

While working as a computer technician at Mersin State Omer Faruk Arsoy, who was dismissed due to his union membership, succumbed to skin cancer on 25 December 2018.Arsoy was reinstated to his duty 3 months after his death while lying in his grave.

Canan Deniz and her husband became unemployed when the educational institution they worked for was shut down with a Decree-Law by the regime. The family moved to Denizli city. Afterwards, her husband was arrested. Mrs Deniz started to use heavy depression drugs. It was stated that she committed suicide by hanging herself with a scarf in her room.

Ilyas Unlu was working in a school shut down by the Decree-Law and died in an explosion in the factory. He started working in a factory because he became unemployed. Unlu had to work in a job that he did not know because he had to earn a living for his family. The 33-year-old Unlu was married and had a child.

Adalet Betul Cagdir was a teacher and wife of a judge. Mr Cagdir was purged from his profession with a Decree-Law, and an arrest warrant was issued to keep him in prison for a long period of time. After Mrs Cagdir`s life was turned upside down and she lost her hope for the future, she could not cope with the persecution after 15 July and committed suicide by jumping from the 9th floor of the house.

Kadriye Irmak was first purged in her profession, then she was arrested as part of the KPSS investigations and spent four months in Ankara Sincan Prison. The young teacher, the mother of two children, got cancer due to the sadness she experienced. Irmak passed away when her illness could not be fully treated under prison conditions or fear of arrest again.

History teacher Muhammed Ince was dismissed from his profession with a Decree-Law and arrested. His wife, Huriye İnce, and his two children had challenging times due to social pressure and financial problems, and therefore his wife, Mrs Ince, was diagnosed with cancer. The young woman passed away.

Ersin Demirci was the Erzurum Regional Representative of Zaman Newspaper, Turkey’s bestselling newspaper. Zaman N. was shut down with a Decree-Law issued by the regime after July 15, it was allegedly related to the Hizmet Movement. Mr Demirci’s wife, Mrs. Demirci, got cancer during the hard time and died on October 18, 2018.