Sevgi Balci and her husband were purged from their professions one after another with the Decree-Laws. Their family was evicted from the social pressures from their homes in the lodging. His closest friends didn’t even greet them. Mrs Balci had just given birth and had to move house in her puerperal condition. When social and psychological pressures were added to the financial difficulties, the mother of 3 children was dragged into a great depression and committed suicide.

Sevgi Balci, the mother of a seven-month-old baby and a nurse fired by a government decree in October 2016, committed suicide by hanging herself in Isparta province on Friday (August 15, 2017). She was buried after a funeral in Burdur’s Bucak district on Saturday.

According to the ArtiGercek.com website, Balci, a mother of three, was expecting to return her profession by recent decrees issued early on Friday. However, after realizing that she is not reinstated to her job, Balci died after committing suicide.

Sevgi Balci had also attempted to commit suicide on August 15, 2017, reported local media outlets. According to the reports 37-year-old mother of three hanged herself at her home in the Cunur neighbourhood in Isparta. Sevci Balci’s neighbours failed to hear from her for a while, called the police, who later broke into her house and found out that she had hanged herself.

An anonymous tip was submitted on August 17 to @magdurmesajiTr, a Twitter account is known for awareness postings regarding the post-coup rights violations; Sevgi Balci and her husband Halil İbrahim Balci were dismissed from their jobs as a nurse and a hospital worker, respectively.

“She has been psychologically depressed for some time, and she tried to commit suicide earlier too. …She is now under intensive care at a hospital,” the tip said.

Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) has reported in one of its reports which were released in March 2017 titled “Suspicious Deaths and Suicides In Turkey”, that there has been an increase in the number of suspicious deaths in Turkey, most in Turkish jails and detention centres where a torture and ill-treatment is being practised. However, in most cases, authorities concluded these as suicides without any effective, independent investigation.

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