Turkish military operation footage screened in stadium before Amedspor match
Footage of a Turkish military operation against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) was projected on the scoreboard of a stadium on Saturday, just...
Purge-victim judge couple reunited with daughter after 29 months in Turkish prison on coup...
Neslihan and Hüseyin Ekinci, both former judges in the Turkish judicial system, finally saw each other on Tuesday night and were reunited with their...
Pregnant woman sent back to prison after losing baby
Hanife Çiftçi, who was jailed in June when she was seven weeks pregnant due to her alleged links to the Gülen movement, lost her...
Turkey drops investigation into demise of teacher who was tortured to death
The Istanbul chief public prosecutor has decided to drop an investigation into the death of Gökhan Açıkkolu, a teacher who died after enduring 13...
Political prisoner in Turkey locked up in a cell with ISIS suicide bomber for...
Turkish police deliberately put a political prisoner in a cell with a suspected Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) suicide bomber as part...
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,...
404 people tortured, 10 people abducted in Turkey in 2020: TİHV
Four hundred four people were tortured and 10 were abducted in Turkey last year, according to an annual report released by the Human Rights...
6 lawyers from Ankara Bar human rights committee resign following bar’s decision not to...
Six lawyers from the Ankara Bar Association’s human rights committee resigned in protest following the bar’s decision not to publish a report on allegations...
Images of inmate who died in Silivri Prison show signs of severe beating and...
New images of Ferhat Yılmaz, one of the inmates who was allegedly subject to mistreatment by guards in Istanbul's Silivri Prison, emerged on Wednesday...
Turkey’s intelligence agency confirms abduction of more than 100 people with alleged links to...
Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) has confirmed in its yearly report that it conducted operations for the forcible return of more than 100 people...
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