CoE’s torture committee calls for limiting number of inmates and promoting non-custodial measures
The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) has called on European countries to...
Most religion-based hate crimes in Turkey targeted Alevis, Christians in 2022: report
Alevis and Christians were targeted in the vast majority of religion-based hate crimes recorded in Turkey in 2022, according to a report by the...
Turkey violated rights of Greek Orthodox clerics, top court announces in reasoned decision
Turkey’s Constitutional Court ruled in September that two Greek Orthodox clerics were unlawfully barred from serving on a foundation board in violation of their...
Poverty stemming from pandemic continues to worsen among Turkey’s Roma people
A report drafted by the Roma Memory Studies Association (Romani Godi) reveals how the poverty that increased during the COVID-19 pandemic deepened the rights violations against...
Pregnant woman’s health rapidly declines in Turkish prison after Gülen-linked arrest
The health of a pregnant woman jailed over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement has quickly worsened in custody, her husband said Monday,...
Turkey’s poverty threshold continues to rise in 2026
The monthly income needed for a family of four in Turkey to stay above the poverty line rose to 106,817 lira ($2,402) in March,...
Inmates go on hunger strike to protest rights violations in prison in western Turkey
Six inmates in a prison in Turkey's western province of Afyonkarahisar went on a hunger strike on Tuesday to protest rights violations in the...
Dismissed public worker convicted over alleged Gülen links dies of cancer at 49
Enver Aydın, a former road maintenance worker who was dismissed from public service and convicted on terrorism-related charges over alleged links to the faith-based...
At least 425 workers died in occupational accidents in first quarter of 2024: İSİG
Turkey recorded at least 425 deaths in work-related accidents in the first quarter of this year, the BirGün newspaper reported on Monday, citing the...
Gov’t, media colluded to frame Gülen movement as terrorist: pro-Erdoğan journalist
Rasim Ozan Kütahyalı, a close confidant of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and a journalist who describes himself as the president’s “spin-doctor,” revealed the...
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