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Dismissed Turkish civil servant dies after cancer goes untreated in prison until final stage

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A Turkish civil servant dismissed under post-coup emergency decrees died early Thursday from colon cancer that reached its final stage while he was in custody, after authorities released him only when the disease had become terminal. According to the TR724 news website, Ömer Alaca, 42, spent 502 days in Van Prison following his 2018 arrest. […] The post Dismissed Turkish civil servant dies after cancer goes untreated in prison until final stage appeared first on Stockholm Center for Freedom.