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...
Lawyer ends hunger strike after release from prison in wake of colleague’s death
Aytaç Ünsal, a Turkish lawyer who has been on a hunger strike for 213 days in support of his demand for a fair trial,...
Police officer who fatally shot Kurdish student acquitted of charges
A police officer who stood trial for fatally shooting a young student, thinking he was a suicide bomber, at a Newroz celebration in southeastern...
Turkey’s spying activities in Germany increased in 2021
The number of investigations launched by German authorities into the activities of foreign intelligence services in the country, particularly Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT),...
Turkey’s constitutional court opens the way for purged civil servants to practice law: report
Turkey’s Constitutional Court said on Friday that former public servants who were dismissed from their jobs by government decrees after a 2016 coup attempt...
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...
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...
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...
Woman who suffered brain hemorrhage in police detention handcuffed to hospital bed
A female detainee who suffered a brain hemorrhage in detention and was unable to move was handcuffed by police to her hospital bed, the...
Journalist Aslıhan Gençay disciplined for objecting to unlawful strip search in prison
Aslıhan Gençay, a former columnist for the Bianet and Siyasi Haber news websites, was disciplined for objecting to an unlawful strip search in central...
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