Ailing 84-year-old imprisoned after appeals court upholds politically motivated conviction

Nusret Muğla, 84, who suffers from multiple health problems, was arrested on Wednesday after the Supreme Court of Appeals upheld a previous conviction that...

Court in eastern Turkey convicts members of family mistreated by police during house raid

A court in eastern Turkey has sentenced to prison two women from a family that suffered mistreatment at the hands of police officers in...

1-month-old baby had to sleep on floor in overcrowded cell, former inmate’s account reveals

A former female inmate whose name was not disclosed for security reasons said prison conditions were exceptionally trying for women as they were either...

New Turkish TV series sparks outrage for romanticizing femicide 

A new Turkish television series developed by renowned actor Yilmaz Erdoğan has sparked public criticism for promoting gender-based violence and femicide.  Members of the public...

Students detained in ongoing Boğaziçi protests reveal torture, threats by Turkish police: report

“We were detained around 4:30 p.m. and forced to wait in a bus until 5 a.m. The environment itself was torture. We were...

Name of torturer removed from school after public outrage

The name of a military officer who was accused of torturing Kurdish political prisoners following a 1980 military coup in Turkey was removed from...

Ankara police accused of abducting 3 university students in broad daylight

Ankara police have been accused of abducting three university students today and abandoning them in distant parts of the city after threatening and beating...

Journalists arrested over anti-refugee messages released pending trial

An Ankara court has released 10 people pending trial, including four journalists, who were arrested last year due to social media posts allegedly targeting...

With both parents in prison for Gülen links, neighbors help care for 11-year-old cancer...

Sabriye Dağdeviren, the mother of 11-year-old leukemia patient Hakan, said her son is at times cared for by their neighbors during his treatment at...

Turkey’s top court finds rights violations in access ban imposed on X accounts

In a promising development amid increasing online censorship in Turkey, the country’s Constitutional Court has found rights violations in the banning of access to...

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