Turkish hunger strikers held in ‘severe confinement’ conditions, say lawyers
Lawyers for hunger striker teachers Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça have said the jailed educators, who are on the 155th day of hunger strike,...
Turkish police deny torturing villagers while investigation continues
Turkey’s General Directorate of Security on Thursday denied torturing thirty-six villagers who were detained on July 5 as part of an operation by Turkish...
HDP deputy brings tortured Kurdish villagers on Turkish Parliament’s agenda
Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Bedia Özgökçe has applied to the Parliamentary Human Rights Commission on the claims of torture and ill-treatment...
Letter from female prisoner reveals systematic punishment in Turkish jail
A letter of a female prisoner in Tarsus T-type closed prison has revealed the systematic patterns of ill-treatment and torture in Turkish jails. According...
Former ECtHR judge: Identical uniforms for Turkey’s coup suspects against human rights
Former European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judge Rıza Türmen has said obligating all suspects in ongoing trials concerning a controversial coup attempt last...
16 people including stallholder woman detained in Aksaray over alleged ByLock use
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Turkish police teams on Tuesday detained 16 people, including a stallholder woman in an Aksaray-based coup probe on accusations that they use a smart...
Turkey’s war on human rights: 43 rights advocates in police custody for two days
The Human Rights Association (İHD) İstanbul Branch has announced on Monday that 43 human rights advocates, who were detained during their attempt to issue...
Report: 36 Kurdish villagers tortured under Turkish police custody
Thirty-six villagers who were detained following a clash between Turkish security forces and terrorists were allegedly tortured by police, the Cumhuriyet daily reported on...
ECtHR asks Turkish government for explanation over the case of abducted lawyer
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has decided to evaluate the application of Emine Özben whose husband Mustafa Özben (42), a Bar-registered lawyer...
Victim reveals systematic torture in detention camp 100 meter away from Ankara Courthouse
A victim, who was detained over his alleged links to the Gülen movement, has identified the location of a secret detention facility in Ankara...
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