İHD says families cannot reach their children in blockaded Koruköy, minister adamant
A report by Turkey’s Human Rights Association (İHD) shows that several families cannot reach their children in the village of Koruköy in southeastern Mardin...
HDP’s Baydemir takes military blockade and torture in Koruköy to Parliament’s agenda
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Şanlıurfa deputy Osman Baydemir talked about developments in Koruköy village of the Nusaybin district of southeastern Mardin province during...
PACE report lambasts Turkey on severe restrictions to access to a lawyer
A draft report by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) lambasted Turkey on severe restrictions placed on access to lawyers by...
Journalist Aslı Ceren Aslan arrested in Şanlıurfa
It has been reported that the editor-in-chief of Özgür Gelecek newspaper, Aslı Ceren Aslan, who was detained on Feb. 5, 2017 in Şanlıurfa, has...
Amnesty International: Torture and ill-treatments in police detention increased in Turkey
An annual report of the Amnesty International (AI) draw attentions to increase in cases of torture and other ill-treatments in police detention, from curfew...
Police strip jailed purge victim, beat for 22 days, threaten to rape wife
O.K., a purge victim in Zonguldak province who was detained on Aug. 1 last year over links to faith-based Gülen movement, was tortured by...
Security forces beat 39 villagers at blockaded Kuruköy square, set houses on fire
Turkish security forces blockaded a village in Nusaybin district of Mardin province beaten thirty nine villagers in front of others at the village square...
Post-coup purge victim says he may never be a father due to torture in...
A man jailed over alleged links to a failed coup in Turkey last July said during a recent hearing in Kırıkkale that he may...
Turkish government’s oppression against Kurds intensifies
Acting under the directives of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the government of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has intensified its war and persecution...
AI’s Vanderlinden: Erdogan abuses coup attempt as opportunity to silence all dissident voices
International human rights organization Amnesty International’s (AI) Turkey Coordinator Jenny Vanderlinden has said that the failed coup on July 15, 2016 has been an...
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Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft
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Pushbacks of Turkish asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey: Violation of the principle of...
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Turkey’s Transnational Repression: Abuse of asset freezing mechanisms under the pretext of prevention of...
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Human rights in Turkey: 2021 in review
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