Turkish university student commits suicide as father in jail for months over alleged links to Gülen movement

Ali Furkan Yabaneri, a 24-year-old electrical engineering student at İstanbul’s prestigious Koç University, died of an overdose months after his father was jailed as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown. Local media said Yabaneri committed suicide at his family’s home in the central Anatolian province of Kırşehir on January 15, 2018. A last-year student at the … Continue reading Turkish university student commits suicide as father in jail for months over alleged links to Gülen movement