Turkey’s main opposition leader slams police violence against ‘Saturday Mothers’
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), said on Sunday that only a dictatorial administration would order a police...
PPJ report exposes human rights violations and inadequacy of Turkish prisons
A comprehensive report, released last week by Platform for Peace & Justice (PPJ) on the prison conditions in Turkey under the state of emergency...
French President urges respect for rule of law in talks with Turkey’s Erdoğan
French President Emmanuel Macron told Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday that democratic countries had to respect the rule of law in...
Opposition MP raises alarm over alleged mistreatment of women detainees
Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a parliamentary member of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) and a human rights advocate, has raised concerns...
Pro-gov’t journalist confesses MİT abducted, illegally questioned Gülen followers
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Abdurrahman Şimşek, Sabah’s special editor for intelligence reporting, admitted on Friday that Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) abducted several people who have links to...
9 Boğaziçi University students sent to jail for protesting Turkey’s Afrin operation
Nine students from İstanbul's prestigious Boğaziçi University were arrested by an İstanbul court on Tuesday and put in pretrial detention while six others were...
Brig. General Caha says July 15 coup carried out under control of chief of...
Brig. Gen. Erhan Caha, one of 221 suspects including over two dozen former Turkish generals accused of being ringleaders of an attempted coup on...
65-year-old woman stripped naked before visiting son in Turkish prison
Süleyman Başer, a media consultant for the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) who spent 10 months in prison, said his septuagenarian mother had been...
Torture victim says he lost his vision due to blows to head in police...
A torture victim who was detained as part of Turkey’s post-coup crackdown when he was a 20-year old university student has said he lost...
Turkish gov’t detains 18 people as military students, families teargassed during Ankara march
Turkish government has detained at least 18 people on Saturday after police intervened into a group of dismissed military academy students and their families...
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