Family of 14-year-old Kurd pressured by district governor to withdraw mistreatment complaint
The family of a 14-year-old Kurdish teenager who has accused police officers of physical assault has been urged by the local district governor to...
Kurdish journalist claims she was subjected to strip-searches in prison
Esra Solin Dal, a Kurdish journalist who was previously arrested and released pending trial, was allegedly subjected to a number of rights violations including...
Erdoğan’s crackdown does not spare minors: Teenagers recount trauma of police custody
Two teenage girls detained last week in a police operation focused on alleged members of Gülen movement, a faith-based group targeted by Turkish President...
Turkish prosecutors dismiss torture complaint by former dormitory director linked to Gülen movement
Turkish prosecutors have dismissed a complaint of torture filed by Aysun Işınkaralar, the former director of a dormitory affiliated with the faith-based Gülen movement,...
Police interrogated minors in custody without lawyer present, falsified statements: MP
Opposition deputy and leading human rights advocate Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu has claimed that the police questioned minors who were detained on Tuesday in the...
Teacher abducted from Kyrgyzstan recounts torture, death threats in custody: report
A report drafted by a bar association in Turkey has revealed how a Turkish educator renditioned to Turkey from Kyrgyzstan by Turkish intelligence in 2021...
NGO report documents more than 7,000 violations in central Turkey prisons in 2023
The Human Rights Association (İHD), one of Turkey’s major advocacy groups, has released a report on prisons located in the Central Anatolian region that...
Man beaten by gendarmes gets prison sentence for ‘resisting’
Osman Kale, who was beaten by gendarmes in northern Turkey, has been sentenced to six months in prison on conviction of resisting law enforcement...
Turkey’s top court finds prisoner uniforms unconstitutional
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has abolished a regulation requiring a designated group of inmates to wear a uniform on the grounds that it failed to...
Gendarmes beat, detain 16 during strike by union members
A strike at a food production factory in the Kemalpaşa district of Izmir on Tuesday escalated into gendarmes beating and detaining three union executives...
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