In a letter, a jailed woman reveals abuse and ill-treatment in Turkish prison
A letter by a jailed Turkish woman who wrote to her aunt from Konya prison revealed the ill-treatment of detainees who were subjected to...
Yet another woman who just gave birth faces detention over alleged Gülen links
Elif Coşkun, who just gave birth on Monday night in Turkey’s western province of İzmir, will allegedly be taken into custody in the hospital...
HRF urges UN to oppose torture on 18 Gülen followers imprisoned in Turkmenistan
In an open letter issued on Tuesday, the New York-based Human Rights Foundation (HRF) has called on United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to...
60-year-old Turkish woman commits suicide as husband under arrest for 10 months
A 60-year-old woman, identified with initials H.G., hanged herself in her house in Söke district of Aydın province, according to local media on Sunday....
Police waits to detain a housewife in Turkey shortly after her delivery due to...
Turkish police has been reportedly waiting in front of the door of a hospital room where a housewife, who has just given a birth,...
280 inmates committ suicide in Turkey’s prisons in last 5 years
At least 280 inmates committed suicide in Turkish prisons in last five years, according to the official data shared by Turkey's Justice Ministry as...
Turkish gov’t transfers detained woman, newborn baby to prison 1,291 km away from home
Detained in the southern province of Isparta as part of a post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting the alleged members of the Gülen movement, a...
Boğaziçi University student commits suicide as dismissed father under arrest for 9 months
21-year-old university student Tuğçe Ölçer died after jumping off a balcony as she was depressed in the face of her father’s imprisonment, according to...
Turkish teacher under UN protection detained in Azerbaijan for deportation to Turkey, wife says
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Taci Şentürk, a Turkish teacher who was working in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku, was taken by police to an unknown place after UN...
HRW: 18 men affiliated with Gülen movement tortured, sentenced in unfair trial in Turkmenistan
A Turkmen court sentenced 18 men to up to 25 years in prison on February 8, 2017, in what appears to be a purge...
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