Ailing 83-year-old prisoner tests positive for COVID-19
Mehmet Emin Özkan, an 83-year-old inmate who was not released by authorities despite suffering from severe health problems, has tested positive for COVID-19 in...
Turkey’s Constitutional Court rules in favor of LGBT activist in landmark hate speech case
Turkey's Constitutional Court has ruled in favor of LGBT activist Efruz Kaya, declaring that a lower court’s refusal to block homophobic content targeting her...
COVID-19 continues to spread in Turkey’s overcrowded prisons
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to hit Turkey’s overcrowded prisons hard, with news of new infections coming from Hilvan Prison in the southeastern city of...
LGBTQ+ inmate raped, beaten and threatened in Turkey’s Eskişehir Prison
Memiş Akbaş, a LGBTQ+ man incarcerated in Eskişehir Prison, was raped, beaten and threatened, according to a recent report by the Association of Civil...
Journalist faces multiple insult charges due to social media posts
An editor at the Gerçek Gündem news website has been indicted on charges of insulting public officials in tweets that allegedly targeted two deputy...
Council of Europe calls on Turkey to enforce ECtHR ruling for Kavala release
Secretary-General of the Council of Europe Marija Pejčinović Burić has urged Turkey to comply with its obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights...
Turkish authorities launch investigation into CHP lawmaker for commemorating Armenian Remembrance Day
The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office on Monday launched an investigation into Republican People's Party deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu for commemorating Armenian Remembrance Day, the...
‘Saturday Mothers’ meet for the 685th week on eve of Mother’s Day
As they do every week, the Saturday Mothers, a group of women who lost their children during the fight between the outlawed Kurdistan Workers'...
Kılıçdaroğlu harshens rhetoric, says 10 million refugees need to be urgently expelled from Turkey
In an apparent bid to woo nationalist voters, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the soft-spoken main opposition leader and presidential candidate, has stepped up his rhetoric and...
CISST report finds Turkish prisons do not accommodate foreign inmates
A new report by the Civil Society in the Penal System (CISST) said foreign inmates in Turkish prisons were facing many difficulties, including a...
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