Woman in pretrial detention with newborn baby released on parole
Şeyma Tekin, a woman jailed pending trial who gave birth in January at a hospital in Erzurum and had to return to prison with...
Purge victim reinstated to job after his death
Ömer Faruk Arsoy, a computer technician who used to work at a state hospital in the southern Turkish province of Mersin but was removed...
ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCE: Two more men abducted in Turkey
Salih Zeybek and Gökhan Türkmen, two former Turkish civil servants who were dismissed from their jobs by government decrees, were reportedly abducted in February,...
27 academics get 57 years in total for signing peace declaration
Twenty-seven academics have been handed down sentences totaling 57 years, 11 months and five days on charges of disseminating terrorist propaganda in signing a...
Woman detained for helping families of jailed individuals
A woman has been detained in the Turkish capital of Ankara on accusations that she provided financial assistance to the families of people who...
Turkey orders detention of 295 military personnel
The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Friday ordered the detention of 295 active duty military members in 59 provinces over alleged terrorist links,...
ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCE: Police file report despite denial of knowledge of abducted men
A Turkish journalist living in exile has discovered that the Ankara Police Department filed a report on the abduction of two men earlier this...
Document reveals detention of 2,745 judicial members ordered a day after coup attempt
A document published by a Turkish journalist living in exile on Wednesday revealed that a public prosecutor in Ankara had sent a list of...
Prosecutor seeks aggravated life for Kavala, 15 others over Gezi protests
An indictment that has just been submitted to an İstanbul high criminal court demands aggravated life –- imprisonment without the chance of parole --...
Turkish police admit nonexistence of ‘secret witness’ whose statements led to many imprisonments
The Diyarbakır Police Department has revealed that an anonymous witness codenamed “Venüs” whose testimony led to the detention and imprisonment of scores of people...
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