Turkey has arrested over 113,000 since 2016 coup attempt as crackdown on Gülen movement...
Turkish courts have arrested more than 113,000 people over the past nine years as part of an extensive crackdown that followed a coup attempt...
Journalists demonstrate in solidarity with 16 Kurdish colleagues in jail
Journalists in several Turkish cities staged demonstrations on Friday to show solidarity with 16 of their colleagues who were arrested in the southeastern province...
RTÜK takes no action against pro-gov’t TV station that received most complaints
Turkey’s Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) has not taken any punitive action against the pro-government ATV television station despite the fact that the...
ECtHR faults Turkey for terrorism convictions of 239 applicants in follow-up to 2023 judgment
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled Tuesday that Turkey violated the rights of 239 people convicted of terrorism offenses due to their alleged ties...
As poverty in Turkey deepens, many unable to afford basic necessities, says Izmir neighborhood...
The Izmir City Poverty Network Association (IKYA) said poverty in Turkey has deepened so drastically in recent years that people are no longer able...
Child victims of witch hunt reveal plight of children caught up in Turkey’s never-ending...
Two recent cases involving two children, one handed over to his ailing and elderly grandparents after the incarceration of his parents and the other...
Imprisoned former Istanbul district mayor ‘dying a slow death from cancer,’ says lawyer
Şükrü Genç, the imprisoned former mayor of Istanbul's Sarıyer district, is suffering from colon cancer and is "slowly dying in prison," his lawyer, Hüseyin Cengiz, said...
More than 5,000 people mistreated or tortured in Turkey in 2021: report
Cases of human rights violations in Turkey last year included 5,488 incidents of torture or mistreatment, with 1,414 of them taking place in prisons,...
Every night when we go to bed, we think of the possibility of arrest...
“Every night when we go to bed, we think of the possibility that we might be taken in the morning. We all carry the...
Elderly political prisoner in critical condition after collapse in overcrowded jail amid extreme heat
A 70-year-old inmate in Turkey is in critical condition after collapsing during a heatwave in an overcrowded prison, raising renewed concerns over the country’s...
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