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170,372 dismissed from their jobs, 141,558 detained, 80,147 arrested, 3,003 schools, universities, and dormitories shut down, 6,021 academics censored and lost their jobs, 4,463 judges and prosectors lost jobs, 189 media outlets shut down, and 319 journalists arrested, all since july 20,2016. people including teachers, professors, more journalists than any other country, union workers, housewives of suspected gulenists, pkk members, or furkan vakfi members, their babies (700+ of them last i checked), doctors, businessmen, etc. a minority of whom are soldiers after the failed coup, also including lawyers and judges. all of whom may be susceptible to torture, often merely for using bylock, a messaging app, accused of being linked to the gulen movement. teachers dying in prison of torture, people waiting years in prison before trial, people snitching on their neighbors like a witchhunt if they dont like them, (imagine, you want to marry a woman, she says no, so you report her as gulenist terrorist), among the worst censorship in the world, corruption, workers burning themselves alive because of poor working conditions and low pay (BEFORE US sanctions) covered up and censored by the media, threats against women in prison to cause a miscarriage, rape of soldiers in prison, and beating until they are bloody, feeding of pork, imprisonment of up to 4 years for "insulting erdogan", and designation of furkan vakfi jamaat as a terror group simply because the leader insulted erdogan. overcrowding in prisons, denial of food and water to soldiers and keeping of a light in their eyes to keep them awake. i know all this because i am turkish. look it up for yourselves. i cant provide a link as a newbie.