{"id":54216,"date":"2026-04-02T16:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/54216\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T16:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:24:11","slug":"former-teacher-dismissed-over-gulen-links-dies-of-cancer-at-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/54216\/","title":{"rendered":"Former teacher dismissed over G\u00fclen links dies of cancer at 35"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Guven-Turkoglu.jpeg\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- alt=\"\" title=\"Gu\u0308ven Tu\u0308rkog\u0306lu\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Guven-Turkoglu-696x392.jpeg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Guven-Turkoglu-696x392.jpeg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Gu\u0308ven Tu\u0308rkog\u0306lu\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>G\u00fcven T\u00fcrko\u011flu, a former teacher dismissed by an emergency decree over alleged links to the faith-based G\u00fclen movement, has died of cancer in the northern province of Zonguldak, the TR724 news website\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tr724.com\/35-yasindaki-khkli-ogretmen-vefat-etti\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>T\u00fcrko\u011flu, 35, was removed from his job by a government decree in the sweeping purges that followed a coup attempt on July 15, 2016. After losing his job, he struggled to rebuild his life and was most recently working at a thread factory in Zonguldak\u2019s Alapl\u0131 district while battling cancer.<\/p>\n<p>T\u00fcrko\u011flu is survived by a wife and two children.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan has targeted followers of the G\u00fclen movement, inspired by the late Muslim cleric Fethullah G\u00fclen, since corruption investigations in December 2013 implicated him as well as some members of his family and inner circle. He dismissed the probes as a G\u00fclenist conspiracy and later designated the movement as a terrorist organization in May 2016, intensifying a sweeping crackdown after the failed coup in July of the same year that he accused G\u00fclen of orchestrating. The movement denies involvement in the coup attempt or any terrorist activity.<\/p>\n<p>Following the abortive putsch, the Turkish government declared a state of emergency that remained in effect until July 19, 2018. During this period, the government carried out a purge of state institutions under the pretext of an anti-coup fight by issuing a number of government decrees. Over 130,000 public servants, including 4,156 judges and prosecutors, as well as more than 24,000 members of the armed forces were summarily removed from their jobs for alleged membership in or relationships with \u201cterrorist organizations\u201d by emergency decree-laws subject to neither judicial nor parliamentary scrutiny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"G\u00fcven T\u00fcrko\u011flu, a former teacher dismissed by an emergency decree over alleged links to the faith-based G\u00fclen movement,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[6873,29058,311,30028,312,429,1891,131,132,155],"class_list":{"0":"post-54216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-stockholm","8":"tag-crackdown-on-gulen-movement","9":"tag-dismissed-civil-servants","10":"tag-gulen-movement","11":"tag-guven-turkoglu","12":"tag-human-rights","13":"tag-oppression","14":"tag-post-coup-purge","15":"tag-stockholm","16":"tag-sweden","17":"tag-turkey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116336044827890179","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}