BBC report: Women with 6-month-old infants in jail due to emergency rule in Turkey

Hundreds of women are in pretrial detention in jails across Turkey with their infants, some of them less than six months old, due to...

Jailed co-mayor of Saray district of Turkey’s Van province severely tortured by prison guards

Zilan Aldatmaz, who is arrested co-mayor of Saray district of Turkey's Van province, was reportedly tortured by the prison guardians in Elazığ T Type Prison,...

Turkey issues detention warrants for 17 football fans over banner for supporting hunger strikers

Detention warrants were issued by Samsun Chief prosecutor's Office for 17 fans of Turkish football club Beşiktaş for holding a banner during a Sunday match that...

70-year-old Turkish woman intending Hajj pilgrim detained on coup charges at İstanbul airport

A 70-year-old Turkish woman, who is a prospective Hajj pilgrim, was detained by Turkish police on coup charges at İstanbul’s Atatürk on Thursday night. According...

Jailed journalists refuse to wear uniforms designed for coup suspects in Turkish prisons

Imprisoned journalists from Cumhuriyet and Sözcü daily told members of Turkish press organization who visited them in Silivri jailed on Thursday that they will...

Turkey takes legal action against 2 people, 5 dismissed over ‘hero’ T-shirt

As part of an investigation launched after Gökhan Güçlü, a suspect on trial for an assassination attempt against Turkey's autocratic President Tayyip Erdoğan on...

Dismissed academic not allowed to study at university as student in Turkey

Academic Cenk Yiğiter, who was dismissed from the Ankara University law faculty under a state of emergency decree-law, has not been allowed to study...

HDP deputy brings tortured Kurdish villagers on Turkish Parliament’s agenda

Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Bedia Özgökçe has applied to the Parliamentary Human Rights Commission on the claims of torture and ill-treatment...

Turkish-Armenian intellectual Nişanyan says Turkish gov’t seized his money in bank account

Turkish-Armenian linguist and writer Sevan Nişanyan, who escaped from a prison in İzmir last month, has said money he kept in a bank account...

Turkish gov’t instructs prosecutors to ban lawyers under investigation from defending suspects

The Turkish Ministry of Justice has instructed high criminal court prosecutors to ban lawyers under investigation from defending suspects and convicts accused of terror...

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