Young epileptic dies of heart attack in Turkish prison
Rıdvan Barış, an 18-year-old inmate in Turkey’s East, on Sunday died of a heart attack, allegedly to the disinterest of prison staff, according to...
ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCE: One more abduction reported in Turkey
Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy and human rights activist Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu on Sunday said another Turkish national was abducted by Turkey’s intelligence agency...
Mother fears military cadets arrested on coup charges will be killed in prison
The mother of one of the military cadets who were jailed on coup charges in the aftermath of a failed military coup in July...
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...
Inmates in Turkish prison deliberately deprived of water: deputy
Deputy from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu said on web TV on Saturday that water is deliberately cut off in an...
Minister on harassed student: I won’t allow pressure on police over a woman with...
Turkish Minister of Interior Affairs Süleyman Soylu said on Wednesday that he would not let the police be pressured over a university student whose...
Police officer seen harassing a female protestor in Ankara
A university student who was detained for participating in a protest organized by Solidarity Association of Prisoners Families (TAYAD) in Ankara on Saturday was...
Police beat minors in southeastern Turkey
Three Kurdish teenagers said they were subjected to police torture during detention in Turkey's southeastern city of Van, lawyers from the Van Bar Association...
Enforced disappearance: 2 more men abducted by armed group in broad daylight in Ankara
Özgür Kaya and Yasin Ugan, both of Ankara, were reportedly abducted from their apartment building on Wednesday, with police saying they have no information...
UPDATE: Woman in pretrial detention gives birth, returns to prison with newborn baby
Şeyma Tekin, who has been in pretrial detention for about three months, gave birth last week at a hospital in Erzurum and returned to...
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