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...
Kosovo to try individuals involved in illegal deportation of Turkish teachers
Kosovar authorities have indicted three individuals involved in the illegal deportation of six Turkish teachers to Turkey on March 29, 2018, Balkan Insight reported.
The...
Daughter of abducted former bureaucrat asks President Erdoğan to help find her father
Nursena Küçüközyiğit, whose father Hüseyin Galip Küçüközyiğit is suspected to be the latest victim of enforced disappearance, called on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...
Turkish gov’t to create its ‘truth ministry’ amid rising censorship
The Communications Directorate of the Turkish Presidency has announced that Turkey will create its own fact-checking mechanism to “fight against lies and false facts...
More than 800 Boğaziçi protestors subjected to ill-treatment by police: report
At least 800 people demonstrating against the appointment of a pro-government rector to İstanbul’s prestigious Boğaziçi University were subjected to ill-treatment by police officers...
Amnesty International calls on Council of Europe foreign ministers to tackle systemic failures enabling...
In a public letter addressed to the foreign ministers of Council of Europe (CoE) member states, Amnesty International on Tuesday asked for their support...
Men dominate the TV news circuit in Turkey with 77 percent of all guest...
Seventy-seven percent of a total of 6,114 guests appearing on news and talk shows on Turkish TV are male, research conducted for the Association...
UN working group requests immediate release of former Turkish military cadet sentenced to life...
The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) found at its 89th session held between November 21 and 27, 2020 that Ahmet Dinçer...
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