Mother of three suffering from thyroid cancer arrested for Gülen links
Gülden Aşık, a mother of three who suffers from thyroid cancer, was arrested on Wednesday after being sentenced to six years, three months in...
Turkey aiming to increase capacity of its prisons to 500,000 by 2024, says ...
The Turkish government is working to increase the capacity of its prisons to 500,000 by 2024, said Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a human rights defender...
Lawyer representing imprisoned police chiefs says she was mistreated during prison visit
Sümeyra Bulduk, a lawyer representing two police chiefs who have been imprisoned since 2014 due to their role in graft probes in 2013 that...
AKP report: Gülen-linked purge victims must face the ‘monsters’ they’ve become
A 2021 report revisiting the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP)’s years-long crackdown on the faith-based Gülen movement says that not all purge victims...
Opposition lawmaker prevented from leaving Turkey due to travel ban
Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a lawmaker from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and a prominent defender of human rights, has been prevented from leaving...
HDP report shows Turkish police tortured 36 villagers with truncheons, rifle butts and mop...
A report by pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) concerning an incident of villagers allegedly tortured by police in the Şemdinli district of Hakkari has...
Jailed Turkish journalist, novelist Ahmet Altan calls indictment about journalists a ‘judicial porn’
Renowned jailed journalist and novelist Ahmet Altan harshly slammed the prosecutor who prepared a controversial indictment against him and other journalists in a court...
Turkish court arrests one more Boğaziçi University student and sends him to jail
Another Boğaziçi University student has been arrested by a Turkish court and sent to pretrial detention at İstanbul's Silivri Prison, increasing the number of...
Former teacher acquitted after ECtHR ruling on violation of his rights
Former teacher Yasin Özdemir, who was sentenced to seven months, 15 days in prison for his alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, was...
Turkey’s top court: Emergency rule compatible with ECtHR and CoE decisions
In the reasoned opinion for a verdict that rejected the individual petitions of individuals accused of participation in a failed coup, the Turkish Constitutional...
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