Human rights bodies: 5,268 people tortured under Turkey’s state of emergency

A total of 5,268 people, including 133 children, were reportedly subjected to torture in Turkish prisons, under police custody, outside of detention facilities, during...

Turkey’s MİT abducts Veysel Akçay, general director of schools affiliated with Gülen movement, in...

Veysel Akçay, the general director of schools affiliated with the Gülen movement in Mongolia, was abducted by agents of Turkey's notorious National Intelligence Organisation...

Jailed Turkish journalist Aydın: I am about to drown, I want a little oxygen

Turkish journalist Hüseyin Aydın, who has been held in İstanbul's notorious Silivri Prison for more than two years, has expressed his feelings in a...

Report shows at least 1,021 women murdered in Turkey since 2016

A report drafted by the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) shows that at least 1,021 women were murdered in Turkey between Jan. 1,...

393 women in Turkey murdered in domestic violence since January 2017

Three hundred ninety-three women in Turkey were killed in incidents of domestic violence over the last 19 months, according to the Interior Ministry. Opposition deputy...

Pregnant woman jailed over Gülen links subjected to torture: rights activist

A woman who was five months into her pregnancy when she was arrested due to her alleged links to the Gülen movement was subjected...

Turkish gov’t refuses to release inmates despite detection of coronavirus in overcrowded prisons

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Islamist government has rejected calls from human rights organizations to release inmates from two overcrowded prisons despite detection in those...
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Former Supreme Court of Appeals judge tortured and mistreated in prison

Nalan Dilara Uğur, daughter of former Supreme Court of Appeals judge Hüsamettin Uğur, has claimed in a series of tweets that her father was...

Torturers threatened me with sexually assaulting my daughter, former teacher says

Police officers threatened me with sexually assaulting my daughter, who was brought with my wife for interrogation, said Mehmet Eren when talking about the...

Yüksel Street protestor Dersulu beaten by guards in Turkish prison

Mehmet Dersulu, a former teacher dismissed from his job by an executive decree after a coup attempt in Turkey in July 2016, was beaten...
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