BBC report: Women with 6-month-old infants in jail due to emergency rule in Turkey
Hundreds of women are in pretrial detention in jails across Turkey with their infants, some of them less than six months old, due to...
Social media posts reveal dismissed police officer subjected to torture for months in Turkish...
A.G., a 32-year-old police officer, who was dismissed as part of Turkish government’s post-coup purge of police department, has reportedly been kept in a...
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...
CHP deputy Akaydın calls on Turkish gov’t to prove coup attempt was not staged
Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Mustafa Akaydın has asked the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government to prove that last summer’s...
Dismissed academic not allowed to study at university as student in Turkey
Academic Cenk Yiğiter, who was dismissed from the Ankara University law faculty under a state of emergency decree-law, has not been allowed to study...
Turkey issues detention warrants for 35 journalists, 9 detained over alleged ByLock use
Turkey has issued detention warrants for 35 more journalists over the alleged use of a smart phone application known as ByLock, the Cumhuriyet daily...
Turkish gov’t instructs prosecutors to ban lawyers under investigation from defending suspects
The Turkish Ministry of Justice has instructed high criminal court prosecutors to ban lawyers under investigation from defending suspects and convicts accused of terror...
Turkey’s military chief not held by force, says former rear admiral coup suspect
Former İstanbul Northern Sea Area Commander and Rear Admiral Ömer Faruk Harmancık, one of the suspects in a trial concerning a failed coup in...
Top court: Turkey jails 2,431 judges, prosecutors, dismisses 4,424 since coup
The Turkish government has arrested a total of 2,431 judges and prosecutors and dismissed 4,424 others since a controversial military coup attempt on July...
COMMENTARY — Erdoğan deliberately thwarts Parliament inquiries about ISIL in Turkey
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Turkey’s Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) government not only protects jihadist groups including Islamic State and al-Qaeda militants from the wrath...
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Throughout the year Turkey continued...
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Sippenhaft, also known as...