Ailing inmate dies of cancer in Turkish prison
Behçet Kaplan, 31, an inmate who suffered from stomach cancer, died on Monday in in a prison in Turkey’s eastern province of Bitlis, the...
Pregnant woman sent to prison over Gülen links despite regulations
Huriye Acun, a seven months pregnant former teacher, was arrested in the city of Konya on Wednesday and sent to prison to serve the...
AKP youth leader threatens Turkish fashion designer critical of Erdoğan with death
The chairman of a youth branch of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) chaired by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan threatened to kill...
Turkey ranks 159th in new press freedom index: RSF
Turkey has dropped to 159th out of 180 countries in the 2025 World Press Freedom Index, published Friday by Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
The report...
Video recording shows inmate being mistreated and stripped naked in Turkish prison
A video recording of an inmate being mistreated and stripped naked in a maximum-security prison in western Turkey was revealed during court proceedings in...
Turkey has handed down 4,890 prison sentences in 289 coup trials to date
Turkish courts have handed down sentences to 4,890 defendants in 288 trials related to a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016, Turkish...
Turkish gov’t imposes indefinite curfew on more than 100 Kurdish villages
The Turkish government on Wednesday imposed an indefinite curfew on at least 116 villages and hamlets in Diyarbakır province, citing an imminent offensive against...
23 detained in new raids targeting döner restaurant chain seized over Gülen links
Turkish police have detained 23 people in a renewed crackdown on individuals accused of ties to a popular döner restaurant chain recently seized by...
Police officers accused of mistreatment resulting in suicide are convicted instead of ‘document forgery’
A Turkish court has handed down prison sentences to four police officers who were allegedly involved in the mistreatment of a young man while...
Pregnant woman kept in prison for 4 months over Gülen links despite regulations
Arzu Nur Özkan, a former teacher, has been in Bünyan Prison in Kayseri province for the last four months for alleged links to the...
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