HDP lawmaker submits parliamentary question regarding underage inmates confined with adults in Maltepe Prison

Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Gülistan Kılıç Koçyiğit in a parliamentary question addressing the Turkish Ministry of Justice asked if it was true that...

Human rights groups: Malaysian authorities also to blame for Turkish educator’s torture

Malaysian human rights organisations Lawyers for Liberty (LFL) and Suara Rakyat Malaysia (Suaram) say Malaysian authorities violated international law by deporting a Turkish teacher to...

Okumuş becomes 2nd victim of abductions targeting members of Gülen movement in a week...

Murat Okumuş, a 40-year-old accountant who was a director at the government-closed Şifa University Hospital in İzmir province, was abducted. It has been second...

Turkey’s state of emergency measures continue for inmates arrested over Gülen links

Turkish judicial authorities have been maintaining the state of emergency measures for inmates arrested over Gülen links, despite the fact that the state of...

Lawyers organizations call on Ankara Bar Association to publish report on torture

Six lawyers organizations have called on the Ankara Bar Association to publish a report on allegations of torture made by detainees held at a...

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...

Former intel chief of Turkish military calls for use of MOSSAD tactics to kill...

İsmail Hakkı Pekin, a former intelligence chief of the Turkish General Staff, has suggested that Turkey make use of tactics it used against Armenian...

Turkish police detain 10 people during demonstrations marking terror attack

Turkish police on Friday detained 10 people who were attempting to make statements to the press at demonstrations in Ankara and İstanbul marking the third...

Turkey builds 47 new prisons during state of emergency; 11 more to open

Turkish government has opened 47 new prisons in last 14 months since the state of emergency (OHAL) declared in the aftermath of a controversial...

Jailed Turkish police chiefs who led 2013 corruption ops taken to police HQ in...

Jailed police chiefs who led corruption operations against the government in 2013 were taken to Istanbul police headquarters on Saturday over the testimony of...
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