Turkish authorities keep another sick inmate in prison despite eligibility for parole
Mahmut Söylemez, who has been in prison for five years on trumped-up terrorism charges despite suffering from several chronic illnesses, has not been released...
US sanctions 2 Turkish ministers with leading roles in unjust detention of Pastor Brunson
The United States sanctioned Turkey’s Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gül and Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu on Wednesday over the country’s imprisonment of American Pastor Andrew...
Critical Saudi journalist Khashoggi goes missing in Turkey
Friends and relatives of Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington-based Saudi journalist known for being a vocal critic of the Saudi leadership, said that they lost...
Health is most critical issue in overcrowded Turkish prisons, says NGO executive
Civil Society Association for Law Enforcement Systems (CISST) executive board member Berivan Korkut has said health is the most critical issue in overcrowded Turkish...
HDP’s Sarıyıldız: Silence of UN in face of Turkish gov’t’s crime against humanity not...
Faisal Sarıyıldız, an exiled deputy from Turkey's pr0-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), stated in a speech at the United Nations Human Rights Council’s 37th...
COMMENTARY — Turkish government claims one-third of its diplomats are terrorists
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The Turkish foreign ministry has branded one third of its diplomats as terrorists by merely an executive decision without any judicial process...
Defendants in Hrant Dink assassination retrial reveal tampering with intel
Veysel Şahin, a defendant in the retrial concerning the 2007 assassination of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, said in court that a piece of intelligence...
Jailed HDP deputy Encü given 55-month prison sentence on terror charges
Ferhat Encü, one of 11 jailed deputies from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has been handed down a prison sentence of 55 months,...
78-year-old man receives jail sentence for allegedly insulting Turkish President Erdoğan
Seventy-eight-year-old Ali Ergin G. was given a jail sentence of eight years, two months by a Turkish court for allegedly insulting Turkish President Recep...
Turkish gov’t converts repatriation centers into ‘immigrant prisons’
Turkey's General Directorate of Immigration is planning to strengthen the security of the repatriation centers located in İzmir, Kırklareli, Kayseri, Antep, Erzurum and Van provinces,...
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