HRF calls on Kosovo PM to apply non-refoulment principle, obey int’l HR law on...
The New York-based Human Rights Foundation (HRF) sent a letter to Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj on Friday and requested that he apply the...
US Human Rights Report: Torture and mistreatment in police custody increased in Turkey in...
Torture and mistreatment in police custody increased in Turkey in 2017 despite the presence of closed-circuit cameras installed by the Turkish government in 2012,...
Pro-Kurdish singer beaten in Turkey’s Bakırköy Prison after refusing strip search
Pınar Aydınlar, a famous folk singer and party council member of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), was beaten by guards at İstanbul’s Bakırköy Prison for...
Survey shows Turkish mainstream media reluctant to cover massive human rights violations
Although there were significantly more human rights violations in Turkey in 2017 than in 2015, coverage of the violations declined in the Turkish media,...
Body of Turkey’s purge victim family’s 2nd child found in Evros River
The body of five-year-old Mesut Akçabay, who went missing along with his mother and two other siblings on July 19 when the boat carrying...
Turkish journalist tells horrific stories of people abducted by MİT, tortured in Ankara building
Cevheri Güven, a Turkish journalist living in exile, has said in recently released video footage that people who were abducted by Turkey's National Intelligence...
Pro-Erdoğan Turks’ violence targeting members of Gülen movement reaches Belgium
Pro-Erdoğan Turks' violence targeting the members of the Gülen movement over a controversial military coup attempt on July 15, 2016 has reached Europe, with...
Turkey’s top torture documentation expert, Şebnem Korur Fincancı, receives Hessian Peace Prize
Şebnem Korur Fincancı, a Turkish human rights defender and forensic doctor, was on Friday awarded the Hessian Peace Prize, given each year to an individual...
Joint NGO submits observations on Turkey to UN Committee Against Torture
The Stockholm Center for Freedom and four other NGOs on Friday submitted a series of observations to the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) on...
Helin Bölek, member of Turkish band Grup Yorum, dies on death fast
Helin Bölek, a member of the Turkish leftist band Grup Yorum who has been on a death fast for 288 days, died on April...
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