HDP deputy: Prison population in Turkey increased by 100 percent in past 6 years
A deputy from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Ertuğrul Kürkçü, has complained about overcrowding in Turkey’s prisons, saying that the country’s prison population...
Turkish police accused of mistreating protester after hitting him with armored vehicle
Twenty-year-old Furkan Özen has accused Turkish police of brutality and the use of disproportionate force after he was hit by an armored vehicle during...
Turkey’s Saturday Mothers meet for 649th time to demand justice for their disappeared children
The mothers of Kurds who have disappeared in Turkey staged their weekly sit-in at Galatasaray Square on İstanbul's İstiklal Avenue for the 694th time...
Turkish police detain 15 people, including journalists and lawyers in İstanbul
Turkish police raided offices of Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP), Federation of Socialist Youth Associations (SGDF), Law Office of the Oppressed (EHB) and...
[VIDEO] Footage shows police ordering Kurdish kids to bare midriffs in security check
A video widely shared on Twitter on Friday night shows police patrolling the streets of Diyarbakır’s Sur district forcing schoolchildren and their parents to...
Turkish court rejects appeal for release for hunger-striking educator
A Turkish court in Ankara rejected an appeal for the release of Nuriye Gülmen, who has been detained for six months on a terror...
39 lawyers charged with terrorism for reporting torture in Turkish prisons
Thirty-nine lawyers detained on September 11 have been charged with terrorism for reporting the torture their clients were subjected to in prison, according to...
Kurdish teenagers allegedly mistreated by police in SE Turkey
Six teenagers who were detained in the southeastern province of Hakkari on Wednesday allege that they were mistreated by the police, the Mezopotamya news...
CPT head Gnatovskyy says Ankara does not allow report on Turkey to be published
The Council of Europe’s anti-torture committee has stated that the Turkish authorities have not given permission for a report on Turkey to be published...
Post-coup victim judge succumbs to cancer after release from prison
Mehmet Tosun, a 29-year-old Turkish judge who was expelled from his job and subsequently arrested over alleged involvement in a July 15 coup attempt...
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