‘Saturday Mothers’ gather for 698th time in İstanbul to demand justice for disappeared children

The "Saturday Mothers" met in İstanbul’s Galatasaray Square for the 698th week to demand justice and the truth about the disappeared people in Turkey. The...

Turkish airport construction workers go on strike, face pepper spray

Workers at the construction site of İstanbul’s new airport went on strike on Friday due to allegedly dangerous working conditions that have caused hundreds...

Slain Saudi journalist Khashoggi’s Turkish fiancée: He thought Turkey was a safe country

Jamal Khashoggi’s Turkish fiancée, Hatice Cengiz, said in an interview broadcast live on Habertürk on Thursday that the slain Saudi journalist was experiencing “great...

Purge victim reinstated to job after his death

Ömer Faruk Arsoy, a computer technician who used to work at a state hospital in the southern Turkish province of Mersin but was removed...

Details of brutal torture at Turkey’s black site exposed

Abdullah Bozkurt The gruesome details of torture and abuse perpetrated by Turkish police at a black site in 2016 were revealed during the testimony of...

Turkey’s 2016-2018 state of emergency a ‘social genocide program’

A two-year-long state of emergency declared after an abortive coup in Turkey on July 15, 2016 caused immense suffering among civil servants who were...

Turkish authorities should investigate allegations of villagers thrown from helicopter: Amnesty International

Turkish authorities should investigate claims of the torture and ill-treatment of two villagers, Osman  Şiban (50) and Servet Turgut (55), who were allegedly thrown...
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62 people subjected to torture in Turkish prisons in February: report

Sixty-two people were subjected to torture and ill treatment in Turkish prisons last month, according to the monthly Rights Violations Report prepared by Sezgin...

Inmates objecting to unlawful strip-search beaten in Turkish prison

Inmates were beaten by guards for resisting a strip-search when they were transferred to Tekirdağ Prison in northwestern Turkey, the Mezopotamya news agency (MA)...

CHP lawmaker submits parliamentary questions regarding human rights violations in Turkish prisons

Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy Özcan Purçu in a parliamentary question addressing the Turkish Ministry of Justice demanded to know whether the ministry was...
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