Famous mountaineer given suspended sentence for spreading ‘disinformation’
Nasuh Mahruki, a renowned mountaineer and founder of the Turkish Search and Rescue Association (AKUT), has been handed down a suspended sentence of nearly...
Human Rights Watch: Torture in custody, abductions continue in Turkey
People in Turkey accused of links to terrorism or with the 2016 military coup attempt have been tortured in police custody while others have...
Former teacher arrested on Gülen charges says heating cut off in cell despite cold...
A former teacher arrested for alleged links to the Gülen movement told his family during a phone call on Tuesday that the heating in...
Sick and bedridden wife of jailed 86-year-old Turkish philanthropist Afşar dies
Feride Afşar, the sick and bedridden wife of 86-year-old Turkish philanthropist Celal Afşar, who has been jailed since July 2018 over his alleged links...
2 Turkish women who fled crackdown jailed in Malta for using forged travel documents
Two Turkish women, both teachers who fled Turkey to avoid a government crackdown in the aftermath of a coup attempt in 2016, were arrested...
Turkish government releases German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yücel
A Turkish court, İstanbul 32nd High Criminal Court, has accepted an indictment seeking up to 18 years in jail for German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yücel...
Appeals court upholds light sentence given to police officer who killed 2 children with...
A regional appeals court upheld a light prison sentence given to a police officer convicted of killing two children with an armored police vehicle...
Turkey arrests coup suspect officer’s lawyer in MİT trucks case
Deniz Akbulut, the lawyer for noncommissioned officer Gökhan Güçlü, one of the suspects on trial for an assassination attempt against Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip...
The number of jailed journalists in Turkey reaches to 200
Stockholm Center for Freedom, an advocacy group that monitors rights violations in Turkey, has updated its mammoth list of jailed journalists in Turkey which...
Inmates subjected to maltreatment, torture at Antalya Prison, relatives say
Inmates incarcerated in Antalya Prison are being subjected to various types of torture and maltreatment by the prison authorities, according to a report on...
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