Police officer convicted of breaking protestor’s arm walks free after receiving suspended sentence
Police officer E.T., who broke the arm of protestor Zeynal Danacı in Ankara in 2017, was convicted of excessive use of force and sentenced...
Air force cadet serving life sentence severely beaten by guards in Silivri Prison
Muhammed Ali Taş, a former air force cadet who was sentenced to life in prison after a July 15, 2016 coup attempt in Turkey,...
Inmate in Diyarbakır Prison subjected to torture, says Independent Lawyers Association
Mehmet Sıdık Meşe, an inmate in southeastern Turkey's Diyarbakır Prison, has been subjected to beating and torture by prison guards, said the Independent Lawyer's...
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party members subjected to police violence during house raid
Meryem Aşkara, a member of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), claimed she was beaten and threatened by special forces police who raided her...
Police officer accused of torturing former air force commander gets promoted
Elif Uzun Sümercan, a previous deputy chief of the Ankara Police Department’s counterterrorism unit who was accused of torturing former commander of the Turkish...
Minister accuses Kurdish villagers allegedly tortured by Turkish soldiers of aiding terrorists: report
Turkey’s interior minister, Süleyman Soylu, has claimed that Kurdish villagers Servet Turgut and Osman Şiban, who were allegedly tortured by Turkish security forces in...
Prosecutor demands 26 years for 3 minors allegedly tortured under custody
A public prosecutor demanded 26 years of imprisonment for three minors who were arrested in the eastern province of Van in 2019 on charges...
Inmates subjected to torture in padded cells in Turkey’s Menemen Prison
Inmates held in Menemen Prison in the western Turkish province of İzmir have been subjected to torture in padded cells, according to the wife...
Kurdish villagers allegedly thrown from helicopter were assaulted by a mob of soldiers, opposition...
Servet Turgut and Osman Şiban, two Kurdish villagers allegedly thrown from a military helicopter in the southeastern province of Van, were in fact assaulted...
Officers terrify 2 Kurdish boys with police dogs during raid on their Diyarbakır home
Police officers used their dogs to terrify two Kurdish boys during a raid on their home in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır, the Mesopotamia...
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Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review
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Hate speech and hate crimes against Syrian refugees in Turkey
This report focuses on the inflammatory rhetoric and illegal acts motivated by prejudice faced by refugees who fled the civil war in Syria to...
Human Rights in Turkey: 2022 in Review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2022. Authoritarianism continued to gain ground...