Saturday Mothers file complaint alleging mistreatment by police at demonstration

Lawyers representing members of the Saturday Mothers have filed a criminal complaint alleging police mistreatment of the activist group during its 967th weekly vigil...

Kurdish politician allegedly strip-searched in western Turkey prison

The guards in an İzmir prison allegedly strip-searched and verbally assaulted Berna Çelik, a provincial executive of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) who...

Turkey’s intel agency renditioned Gülenist businessman from Tajikistan: state-run media

Koray Vural, a Turkish businessman who had gone missing in Tajikistan in mid-September and was being sought by Turkey over his links to the...

Opposition party vice chair acknowledges systematic torture of supporters of the Gülen movement

Ahmet Zeki Üçok, vice chair of the nationalist opposition İYİ (Good) Party, after a visit to two journalists who were recently imprisoned, said they...

Pro-Kurdish MPs investigate prison mistreatment claims 

Deputies from the pro-Kurdish Democratic Peoples’ Party (DHP), previously known as the Green Left Party (YSP), have launched an investigation into claims of severe...

Prison officials in eastern Turkey hogtied two female inmates for hours: report

Local human rights groups have announced that female inmates incarcerated in the eastern province of Ağrı were subjected to severe mistreatment, including being hogtied...

Man abducted from Tajikistan faces risk of torture, Turkish MP says

Opposition deputy and leading rights advocate Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu expressed concern on Wednesday that Koray Vural, a businessman who is believed to have been...

Turkey-based rights group received 155 complaints from high-security prisons in past 20 months: report

The Human Rights Association (İHD) has announced in a new report that in all of 2022 and the first eight months of 2023 it...

Documentary series sheds light on plight of child victims of Turkey’s purge

The Tenkil Museum, a civil initiative dedicated to sustaining the memory of the victims of Turkey’s massive crackdown on the Gülen movement, has launched...

Kurdish farmer in southeast Turkey alleges mistreatment in detention 

A Kurdish farmer in southeast Turkey’s Mus province on Monday was allegedly severely beaten by soldiers in a detention center.  The incident was reported by...

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