Journalist speaks out on abuse in Turkish prison after launch of social media campaign...

Nur Ener Kılınç, a journalist who used to write for the Yeni Asya newspaper, after the launch of a social media campaign protesting the...

Using genocidal language, Erdoğan ally defines Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party as ‘poisonous vermin,’ calls for...

Using genocidal language, Devlet Bahçeli, leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and a key ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, defined Turkey’s pro-Kurdish...

Businessman battling cancer imprisoned for links to Gülen movement

Businessman Ali Kara, 64, was imprisoned in November for affiliation with the Gülen movement despite suffering from lymphoma and diabetes, Bold Medya reported. Kara had...
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Turkish Twitter users stand against sexual harassment and unlawful strip searches in Turkish prisons

Sexual harassment and unlawful strip-searches in Turkish prisons and detention centers were protested on Twitter on Tuesday after human rights activist and pro-Kurdish Peoples’...

Turkey’s top court denies release of former colonel suffering from advanced stage MS

Mustafa Özcan Çay, a former staff colonel convicted on coup charges, was denied release from prison by Turkey’s Constitutional Court despite his inability to...

3-year-old prescribed psychiatric medication after mother locked up on bogus terrorism charges

Hülya Bayden, 31, said in a letter to pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy and rights activist Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu that her 3-year-old daughter...

Broadcasting watchdog RTÜK contributes to increasing censorship in Turkey: Human Rights Watch

Turkey’s broadcasting watchdog, the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), is contributing to increasing censorship in the country by imposing punitive and disproportionate sanctions...

ECtHR rules rights violated in first purge case from Turkey: report

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has said the rights of a civil servant who was fired in a purge carried out by...

Alevi communities in Turkey feel under increasing pressure, say leaders

Alevi leaders in Turkey say the current situation of Turkey’s Alevi population is becoming increasingly precarious as the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...

Turkish gov’t accused of turning prisons into enterprises, exploiting inmates’ labor

The Turkish government has been accused of turning its low security prisons, where more than 60,000 inmates are employed in revenue-generating jobs for very...

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