CoE’s Jagland criticises Turkish gov’t over massive human rights violations

The Council of Europe (CoE) Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland has criticised Turkish government's massive human rights violations under the state of emergency during a speech...

Kurdish Red Crescent: Turkish military shelling kills 17 women, wounds 44 more in Afrin

Kurdish Red Crescent (Heyva Sor) has announced that Turkish military's shelling has killed 17 women and wounded 44 women seriously in Afrin province of...

Autistic children left unattended as teacher parents under arrest

Uz family has two children with autism who were left to fend for themselves after their parents were arrested as part of an investigation...

İHD reports over 15,000 rights violations in Turkey’s Kurdish populated provinces in first 9...

Turkey's Human Rights Association's (İHD) Diyarbakır Branch has reported 15,647 human rights violations in the country's Kurdish populated east and southeastern provinces during the...

Teacher detained just after giving birth, handcuffed to bed at hospital by Turkish police

Turkish teacher Fatma Öztürk was detained just after she gave birth to her baby at Ege Umut Hospital in Manisa’s Turgutlu district while police...

Adana woman who just gave birth to be detained by police in Turkey

A group of police officers have been waiting outside the Avrupa Hospital in the southern province of Adana in order to detain a woman...

Turkish police to journalist: If you don’t speak, we’ll throw you off balcony

  Turkish police have reportedly raided the house of journalist Buğrahan Aydoğan in Çorlu district of Tekirdağ province on Sunday night for the second time to...

Jailed Turkish journalist Büşra Erdal: Thanks God, birds not forbidden to visit me

Jailed Turkish journalist and writer Hanım Büşra Erdal has said in a letter sent from her prison ward in İstanbul that she has been waiting...

Karaman and Özçelik, Turkish nationals deported illegally by Malaysian gov’t, arrested by Ankara court

Turkish educators Turgay Karaman and İsmet Özçelik, who were turned over to Turkey by Malaysian government under questionable circumstances with a total disregard to due...

15-month-old held in Turkey’s prison suffered from bad conditions

Hundreds of infants have been kept in pretrial detention in Turkey’s jails with their mothers due to a state of emergency (OHAL) designed to...

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