Student arrested for tweeting support for Kobane protests says his right to education was...

Cihan Erdal, 32, a doctoral student at Canada's Carleton University who has been in prison in Turkey for five months on terrorism-related charges for...

Kurdish politician speaks of gross rights violations and torture in police detention center

İbrahim Halil Baran, chairman of the Kurdistan Party (PAKURD), has said he witnessed gross human rights violations and torture at a police detention center...

183 members of Congress call on US government to address human rights abuses in...

A bipartisan group of 183 US lawmakers sent a letter on February 26 to Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling on the United States government to...

AKP politician under fire again for claiming Gülen-linked women conceive in conjugal rooms

Özlem Zengin, a senior official from Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), has come under fire once again due to remarks claiming that...

Former Turkish police chief jailed after 2013 investigation given limited water in prison

Former Turkish police chief Ömer Köse, who has been imprisoned since 2014 due to his role in December 2013 graft probes that implicated high-level...

Rights activists, opposition politicians criticize conditions of Turkish juvenile detention centers

Conditions in Turkey's juvenile detention centers are dismal and rife with ill-treatment, violence and torture, according to human rights activists and opposition politicians who...

Amnesty launches campaign calling on Turkish authorities to release Boğaziçi protestors

Amnesty International issued an urgent call for action on Friday for the release of protestors including nine people who are in pre-trial detention and...

Female student subjected to unlawful strip-search files complaint amid government’s persistent denial

A female student who was subjected to an unlawful strip-search in detention has filed a complaint with the prosecutor’s office after top government officials...

Journalist Dündar calls attention to Turkey’s political prisoners via replica of prison cell in...

Journalist Can Dündar, former editor-in-chief of Turkey’s critical Cumhuriyet daily who lives in exile in Berlin, has made a bid to attract public attention...

Brother of police inspector found dead in quarantine cell points to ill-treatment and gross...

Harun Kabakçıoğlu, the brother of former police inspector Mustafa Kabakçıoğlu who was found dead on a chair in a quarantine cell in prison in...
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