Human rights activist and former teacher arrested for protesting human rights violations
Acun Karadağ, a human rights activist and a former teacher who was dismissed from her job by an emergency decree-law as part of a...
Turkish lawyer on hunger strike for 238 days demanding fair trial dies
Ebru Timtik, a Turkish lawyer who has been on a hunger strike for 238 days in support of her demand for a fair trial,...
More than 100 police and military officers detained amid ongoing crackdown on Gülen movement
Turkish police on Tuesday detained 104 former and active duty police and military officers in two separate operations based in the western province of...
Police response was proportional, says Justice Ministry in the case of ‘Saturday Mothers’ protestor...
The police did not use excessive force against Aydın Aydoğan, whose arm was broken by the police on August 25, 2018 during the 700th...
Kurdish teenager fatally shot by soldiers in southeast Turkey
Özcan Erbaş, a 16-year-old boy living in a village in southeastern Turkey's Hakkari province, died after being fatally shot by soldiers, the Mesopotamia News...
Kurdish soldier dies under suspicious circumstances after complaining to father of harassment
Osman Özçalımlı, a gendarmerie private recently assigned to a prison in the western city of İzmir, died under suspicious circumstances on Saturday, a day...
Jailed mother separated from her premature newborn, not allowed to breastfeed for 6 days
Özlem Meci, who was arrested during a pregnancy in 2017 in an attempt to force her wanted husband to surrender, was separated from her...
Another US Consulate employee in Istanbul facing prison on terrorism charges
A Turkish prosecutor has demanded up to 15 years’ imprisonment for Nazmi Mete Cantürk, a security officer at the US Consulate General in Istanbul,...
205 women in Turkey fell victim to femicide in the first half of this...
A total of 205 women were murdered by men in Turkey in the first six months of this year, while 117 died under suspicious...
İHD report reveals at least 10,789 rights violations in 153 Turkish prisons in 2022
A report drafted by Turkey’s Human Rights Association (İHD) has revealed that at least 10,789 rights violations took place in 153 prisons in 58...
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