Female students strip-searched, denied right to consult lawyer
Female students detained by Turkish police last week over alleged links to the Gülen movement were subjected to a strip-search and interrogated without a...
Woman falsely convicted of terrorism says her imprisonment has taken a toll on children’s...
Nesibe Nur Akkaş (41), a homemaker and mother of three imprisoned on bogus terrorism charges, said her imprisonment has scattered her children around the...
Rights watchdogs: Turkey should immediately release human rights defender Osman Kavala
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the Turkey Human Rights Litigation Support Project in a statement on Monday called...
Prosecution demands jail terms for journalists over reporting on Turkish black op in Libya:...
A prosecutor has demanded sentences ranging from eight to 19 years for journalists over their reports on a Turkish intelligence officer killed in Libya,...
European rights court president draws further ire by posing with members of Turkey’s ruling...
President of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) Róbert Ragnar Spanó drew further ire from human rights defenders and the Turkish opposition after...
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,...
Jailed Kurdish leader Demirtaş: Human tragedy unfolding in Turkish prisons
A human tragedy is unfolding in Turkish prisons, said Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), in a...
Kurdish seasonal workers attacked by farmer, villagers in northwest Turkey
Sixteen Kurdish seasonal farm laborers were attacked on September 4 by a farm owner and a group of villagers in Turkey's northwestern province of...
Conscript convicted of involvement in failed coup says he has been robbed of his...
Hamza Yıldız, a young private in the Turkish military convicted of involvement in a failed coup in July 2016 and handed down nine life...
Council of Europe: Osman Kavala’s imprisonment is aimed at dissuading human rights defenders
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (CoE), the organization's statutory decision-making body, issued a statement on September 3, urging the Turkish...
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