HDP deputy brings tortured Kurdish villagers on Turkish Parliament’s agenda
Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Bedia Özgökçe has applied to the Parliamentary Human Rights Commission on the claims of torture and ill-treatment...
Turkey’s pro-gov’t media target German journalist over interview with opposition leader
Frank Nordhausen, an İstanbul-based German journalist, has become the latest victim and target of Turkey’s pro-government media outlets over his interview with the main...
Turkish-Armenian intellectual Nişanyan says Turkish gov’t seized his money in bank account
Turkish-Armenian linguist and writer Sevan Nişanyan, who escaped from a prison in İzmir last month, has said money he kept in a bank account...
Turkish gov’t instructs prosecutors to ban lawyers under investigation from defending suspects
The Turkish Ministry of Justice has instructed high criminal court prosecutors to ban lawyers under investigation from defending suspects and convicts accused of terror...
Turkey’s military chief not held by force, says former rear admiral coup suspect
Former İstanbul Northern Sea Area Commander and Rear Admiral Ömer Faruk Harmancık, one of the suspects in a trial concerning a failed coup in...
German lawmaker wants security guarantee during visit to NATO airbase in Turkey
Alexander Neu, a German lawmaker from the far-left Left party, demanded security guarantees from the German foreign ministry before visiting German soldiers at a...
Letter from female prisoner reveals systematic punishment in Turkish jail
A letter of a female prisoner in Tarsus T-type closed prison has revealed the systematic patterns of ill-treatment and torture in Turkish jails. According...
Former ECtHR judge: Identical uniforms for Turkey’s coup suspects against human rights
Former European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judge Rıza Türmen has said obligating all suspects in ongoing trials concerning a controversial coup attempt last...
Turkey’s daily Cumhuriyet fires columnist Nuray Mert over ideological differences
Academic Nuray Mert has been fired from the Cumhuriyet daily, for which she has been writing columns since April 2015, for not complying with...
AKP teaches Turkish children jihad and politics at Mersin summer camp
The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) youth wing is giving children below the age of 18 education in jihad and politics at a...
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