CoE’s anti-torture committee visits Turkey amid crackdown on protestors over mayor’s arrest
The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) carried out an ad hoc visit...
Lawyers find compelling evidence supporting claims of police mistreatment during İstanbul protests
Turkish lawyers said there was credible evidence that supported claims of unlawful strip-search, abuse and mistreatment by police during recent protests in İstanbul, the...
Young Turkish protesters endure harsh treatment in police custody
After rising up to rally against the arrest of İstanbul’s powerful opposition mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, young Turkish protesters have been forced to wake up...
Inmates allege beatings by guards at prison in SE Turkey
Guards at a high-security prison in the southeastern province of Van allegedly beat inmates and forced them to the ground during a raid on...
Tortured and raped in Turkey, asylum seeker denied protection by US judge with low...
A Turkish asylum seeker who says he was tortured and raped in his home country was recently denied protection in the United States by...
Rights group reports widespread abuses in Turkish prisons in 2024
Prisoners in Turkey’s northwest Marmara region endured alleged mistreatment, severe overcrowding and medical neglect in 2024, according to a new report published by the...
UN special rapporteurs urge Turkey to end mistreatment of human rights lawyers
United Nations human rights special rapporteurs have raised serious concerns over the imprisonment and mistreatment of human rights lawyers in Turkey and expressed concern...
Torture, ill-treatment and prison conditions in Turkey: 2024 in review
Turkey has experienced a marked resurgence of torture and ill-treatment of people in custody since a coup attempt in July 2016. Lack of condemnation...
5 years later, Turkish woman still haunted by strip-search in police custody
A young woman detained over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement in a case that made nationwide headlines five years ago has said...
Turkish police accused of mistreating protester after hitting him with armored vehicle
Twenty-year-old Furkan Özen has accused Turkish police of brutality and the use of disproportionate force after he was hit by an armored vehicle during...
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