Stop discriminating in this time of distress… Release political prisoners, too
Amid fear of the spread of the coronavirus pandemic to the country’s overcrowded prisons, the Turkish government has presented a bill to the Turkish...
Doctor bears witness to torture in Turkish mass detention center: Rape with police truncheon...
A medical doctor who was assigned to conduct physical examinations in a gymnasium-turned-mass detention center following a failed coup in Turkey in 2016 spoke...
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...
Victim of Turkey’s post-coup purge succumbs to cancer after denied passport for treatment abroad
Gülhan Çolakoğlu, 45, a cancer patient who was unable to receive treatment abroad after Turkish authorities refused to issue her a passport due to...
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...
Refugees in Turkey are pushed into ghettoization in absence of integration policies
The majority of Turkish society is resisting accommodating refugees, and migration policies are ineffective in integration, which is pushing refugees into ghettoization and causing...
Yusuf’s autism has worsened significantly since his father was imprisoned a year ago
The condition of Yusuf Halis Çetin, who was diagnosed with autism at the age of three, has significantly worsened since his father was imprisoned...
Ailing inmate handcuffed to bed during cancer treatment
Mustafa Aytaç, an ailing inmate at a prison in the western Turkish province of Afyon, is fighting cancer in handcuffs, the Kronos news website...
183 detained amid ongoing crackdown on Gülen movement
Turkish authorities have ordered the detention of a total of 183 suspects in the last 10 days, part of a relentless witch-hunt against the...
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)...
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