Torture, Ill-treatment and Prison Conditions in Turkey: 2025 in Review

Turkey's record on torture and ill-treatment continued to deteriorate in 2025, despite its commitments under international human rights conventions. Throughout the year human rights organizations...

Turkey’s Erdoğan regime extends post-coup witch hunt targeting Gülen followers abroad

Turkey, under the autocratic rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has stepped up its witch hunt against the alleged members of Gülen movement abroad,...

Turkish gov’t arrests 50,136, detains 154,694 people over alleged links with Gülen movement since...

Basing on the information taken from Turkey's Justice Ministry, Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency (AA) has reported that 154,694 people have been investigated (detained)...

27-years-old mother with 11-months-old son found in Ankara’s Sincan prison

Yağmur Balcı, a 27-years-old mother, who disappeared together with his 11-months-old son in Trabzon Bahçecik Prison, has been found in Sincan Prison in Ankara...

Trial of Turkey’s leading newspaper’s layout designer resumes after 419 days in jail

A prominent newspaper layout designer who has been jailed since August 5, 2016 on trumped-up charges is set to appear for a fifth hearing...

Another Turkish citizen reportedly abducted from plane in Kazakhstan

Turkish national Zabit Kişi was reportedly abducted from a plane by a group of unknown people in Kazakh city of Almaty, his wife said in...

İHD and TİHV: 2,278 people tortured, 11 people abducted in Turkey in 2017

The Human Rights Association (İHD) and the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) on Saturday said 2,278 people were tortured and 11 abducted in...

Prestigious Foreign Affairs journal covers Turkish gov’t’s witch hunt on global sphere

Turkish government has used its international clout to pursue exiles, dissidents, and regular citizens abroad and have Turkish citizens arrested in or deported from...

Jailed Turkish academic Laçiner: I got used to lynching, at least accusations should make...

Renowned Turkish academic and political scientist Prof. Dr. Sedat Laçiner, who was arrested in the wake of a controversial military coup on July 15,...

Turkish court sentences teacher Duman, abducted by MİT from Malaysia, to 18 years in...

Alaettin Duman, a Turkish teacher in Malaysia who was abducted by agents of Turkey's notorious National Intelligence Organisation (MİT) from Kuala Lumpur in 2016...
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