Adalet Betul Cagdir English Language Teacher, Private sector
  • Death Date 27/03/2018
  • Place of Death Istanbul
  • Cause of Death Suicide
  • Date of Burial 28.03.2018,

Biography

Adalet Betul Cagdir, the wife of a former judge who was purged from his post due to alleged links to the Hizmet Movement, jumped to her death from the ninth floor of an apartment building in Istanbul’s Basaksehir district, according to a tweet from a human rights activist.
Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu, one of Turkey’s most renowned human rights activists and former president of the Association of Human Rights and Solidarity for Oppressed Peoples (Mazlumder), tweeted on Tuesday: “Yet another suicide by the spouse of a KHK (Degree-Law) victim. Don’t overwhelm people like this. How many suicides of KHK victims have there been? English teacher Adalet Betul Cagdir, wife of a KHK victim and former judge, committed suicide yesterday by jumping from her 9th-floor apartment in Basaksehir.”
KHK refers to government decrees issued by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016. Employing these decrees, which go into effect without approval by Parliament because of the State of Emergency in Turkey, more than 150,000 people have been removed from state jobs due to their alleged or absolute links to the Hizmet Movement.

Source:
https://turkeypurge.com/wife-purge-victim-judge-jumps-death-9th-floor

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