Since then, news periodically ripples through Twitter or Facebook that new lists have been released.
They are often posted after midnight, and in the terrifying hours that follow, people go online and check for their names, which will also be visible to their neighbors, their bosses, their parents, their sons and daughters.
This is how the listed learn that they have lost their jobs, their pensions, their passports. Once on a list, you are stuck in Turkey — with little means to survive.
You are subjected to a form of professional death, and in some cases a form of social death: children bullied at school, families vilified in their neighborhoods."
> So far, some 140,000 people in Turkey have had their passports canceled
> More than 100,000 people have been suspected of being part of the coup attempt; 71,000 people have been detained, and 41,000 have been arrested. About 35,000 have been detained and then released.
> Six thousand people in academia have lost their jobs, as have 4,000 judges and prosecutors, 24,000 policemen and security personnel and 200 governors and their staff members.
> Seven thousand military personnel have been relieved of their posts.
> Fifteen universities, 1,000 schools, 28 TV channels, 66 newspapers, 19 magazines, 36 radio stations, 26 publishing houses and five news agencies have been shut down.
> The moderate Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas is in jail, accused of inciting violence with words, and as of February, a total of 5,471 people from Demirtas’s political party, H.D.P., had been detained and 1,482 had been arrested.
> Kurdish activists live in fear of the knock on the door — many no longer sleep at home — because once you go to jail, you may never get out.
> Bombing US allies
