706 children accompany mothers in Turkish prisons: justice minister
Turkish Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç has announced that 706 children are currently living with their mothers in Turkish prisons, Turkish Minute reported on Friday.
Tunç...
UN panel calls for immediate release of former general, serving life sentence over alleged...
The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has determined that the imprisonment of Akın Öztürk, the former commander of the Turkish Air Force...
Photographs of deputy police inspector who died in prison quarantine show criminal neglect
Photos of former deputy policy inspector Mustafa Kabakçıoğlu, 44, who died in a quarantine cell in prison on August 29, have been revealed by...
RSF 2018 report: Turkey remains world’s biggest jailer of professional journalists
Turkey continues to be the world’s biggest jailer of professional
journalists according to a report released on Tuesday by Reporters
without Borders (RSF), despite...
Kurdish singer says concert cancelled by municipality for including Kurdish songs
Kurdish singer Mem Ararat said in a statement on Twitter that a concert of his which was scheduled to take place on December 4...
Woman arrested on trumped-up terrorism charges worries for the mental health of her children
Saniye Biçer, who was arrested on trumped-up terrorism charges, said in a letter to prominent human rights activist and pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP)...
Turkish diplomatic missions in the US are hunting down critics of President Erdoğan: report
Turkish diplomatic missions in the United States are continuing to profile critics of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in parallel to an ongoing witch-hunt in...
Turkey’s massive purge forces even the most fragile to leave
The story of a Turkish asylum seeker in Greece who had to leave Turkey despite suffering from esophageal cancer shows the lengths to which...
Pro-Kurdish deputy says Turkish prisons are becoming scenes of massacre as COVID-19 cases dramatically...
Züleyha Gülüm, a deputy from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), said Turkish prisons are turning into scenes of massacre as COVID-19 cases in...
Council of Europe rapporteurs to Turkey: Respect human rights and fundamental freedoms of ...
The rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) issued a joint statement on Thursday about the conviction of four Turkish...
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