Turkey’s jails overflow as inmate population nears 420,000
The number of people held in Turkish prisons has risen by more than 16,000 since April, pushing the total inmate population to 419,194 as...
Femicide in Turkey: At least 275 women killed in first 10 months of 2022
At least 275 women in Turkey were killed by men between January and October despite the government’s claim that the number of femicides in...
Noncommissioned officer who allegedly kidnapped and raped young woman released pending trial
Musa Orhan, a noncommissioned Gendarmerie officer who allegedly kidnapped and raped 18-year-old İpek Er, was released from prison on Tuesday, Turkish media reported.
Orhan was...
Turkish lawyer on hunger strike for 238 days demanding fair trial dies
Ebru Timtik, a Turkish lawyer who has been on a hunger strike for 238 days in support of her demand for a fair trial,...
103 journalists tried, 10 arrested in Turkey in second quarter of 2025
Turkish authorities arrested 10 journalists and launched new prosecutions against dozens more in the second quarter of 2025, according to a new report by...
Turkey tops list of countries with cases pending before European rights court
According to European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) statistics, 26.3 percent of applications pending before the court as of October 31, 2022 had come...
Son of jailed prosecutor suffering from brain tumor pleads for father’s release
The son of Sadrettin Sarıkaya, a former specially authorized prosecutor who was arrested on charges of membership in the Gülen movement in 2017, has...
Turkey blocks access to Kurdish news agency ANF, citing national security
A court in Turkey has blocked access to the website of the Fırat News Agency (ANF) on the grounds of protecting national security and...
Mother of 2 sent to prison with her children over Gülen links
Former teacher Esra Songur was sent to prison with her 22-month-old daughter and three-and-a-half-year-old son for alleged links to the Gülen movement following the...
Kurdish inmates on hunger strike subjected to strip search and abuse in prison
Four Kurdish inmates on a hunger strike were on Wednesday subjected to an unlawful strip search and abuse at Kayseri Bünyan Prison in central...
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