Amnesty secretary-general poses outside infamous Turkish prison where AI’s Eser is jailed
Amnesty International (AI) Secretary-General Salil Shetty posed for a picture on Tuesday outside İstanbul’s infamous Silivri Prison where AI Turkey Director İdil Eser is...
Undersecretary of Justice Ministry: Turkish gov’t to build more than 50 prisons for Gülen...
Kenan İpek, the Undersecretary of Turkey's Justice Ministry, has stated that Turkish government is building more than 50 new prisons for the alleged members...
Computer science professor, jailed in Turkish government’s post-coup sweep, gets cancer diagnosis in prison
Under pre-trial arrest for 13 months over alleged links to the Gülen movement, Ahmet Turan Özcerit, who used to be an associate professor at...
Turkish governor blocks post-coup victim on Twitter after being asked for help
Yakup Canbolat, the governor of Turkey’s central province of Konya, has blocked a Twitter account that seeks help for a teacher who was hit...
EU following ‘worrying’ reports of uniforms for coup suspects in Turkey
A European Union spokesperson on Tuesday said reports of a plan for suspects standing trial on coup charges in Turkey to wear identical uniforms...
Turkish police once again waiting at hospital to detain Kayseri woman after childbirth
Turkish police have been waiting inside Kayseri-based Tekden Hospital to detain Zeynep Toptaş, who just gave birth to her child, over alleged links to...
Rights group: Turkish prison guards threatened with jail when they refuse to torture inmates
Professor Şebnem Korur Fincancı, Founding President of the Turkish Human Rights Foundation (TİHV), said on Sunday that some Turkish prison guards who refused to...
CHP deputy asks ministry for information on 22K inmates without beds in Turkish prisons
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Murat Emir applied to the Justice Ministry on Sunday for information on the reportedly 22,000 inmates...
Exiled Turkish journalist Uslu ‘sworn at,’ ‘threatened with death’ in US
Emre Uslu, an exiled Turkish journalist living in in the United States, tweeted on Sunday that he was sworn at and threatened with death...
HDP says gov’t has given security forces a blank check for civilian killings in...
Amid news stories that a Turkish drone attack killed one civilian and wounded three others in Hakkari on Friday, pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP)...
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