Turkish woman says she miscarried baby due to stress under police custody
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A Turkish woman, whose identity remains anonymous, has said in a recent video recording that she miscarried her baby due to the stress she...
Turkish intelligence agents tortured a helicopter pilot to build a fake legal case for...
Agents of Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (MIT), were involved in select torture sessions at an unofficial site run by the police in order to...
Report: 36 Kurdish villagers tortured under Turkish police custody
Thirty-six villagers who were detained following a clash between Turkish security forces and terrorists were allegedly tortured by police, the Cumhuriyet daily reported on...
Syrian family claims they were tortured at border by Turkish soldiers
A Syrian family attempting to cross into Turkey was detained in the border city of Urfa and subjected to torture by members of the...
Dismissed police officer found dead in Turkey’s Konya province
Melikşah Kültür, a 41-year-old former police officer, who was dismissed as part of an administrative investigation launched against him, was found dead at an...
Author Erdoğan says imposition of travel ban by Turkish gov’t is psychological torture
Turkish author Aslı Erdoğan, who was released on December 29, 2016 after 132 days in jail due to links to the pro-Kurdish Özgür Gündem...
Abduction of 6 Turks in Kosovo point to Turkish embassies’ key role in illegal...
The recent abduction of six Turkish nationals who were affiliated with the Gülen movement in Kosovo has confirmed the key role of Turkish embassies...
Opposition MP calls on justice ministry to respond to his questions on deaths in...
Human rights defender and Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) lawmaker Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu has called on Turkey’s justice ministry to respond his parliamentary questions on...
Wife of veteran police who lost hand, eyes in bomb attack under custody over...
Özlem Konakçı, the wife of former bomb disposal expert Bilal Konakçı, was also reportedly detained over her alleged links to the Gülen movement, which...
340 intellectuals urge Turkish gov’t to take steps to end hunger strike in prisons
While the indefinite and irreversible hunger strike, that pro-Kurdish political prisoners launched on February 15, 2017 has entered a critical stage on its 52th...
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