Turkey’s pro-Erdoğan thugs launch a campaign of insult targeting those who have to live...
Turkey's pro-Erdoğan thugs in abroad have launched a new method of systematic intimidation targeting the dissent people who have to live in exile because...
Jailed Brigadier Arslan dies at a military hospital in Ankara
Jailed brigadier general Yavuz Ekrem Arslan, who was former commander of Manisa 1st Infantry Private Training Brigade, has lost his life in Gülhane Military Hospital...
Authorities’ negligence kills a pregnant woman and her baby in Turkish prison
A jailed Turkish pregnant woman, who was imprisoned in T-Type Prison in Ereğli district of Konya provision and her baby have lost their lives...
Journalist Nur Ener behind bars in Turkey for reporting on rights violations
A young woman journalist who reported about rights violations in Turkey languishes behind prison bars for 245 days in Turkey while prosecutor who asked...
CHP: Turkish prisons turn into death chambers with 215 deaths per year
Three thousand 432 prisoners have lost their lives in Turkish prisons in last 16 years and 215 prisoners lose their lives per year according to Turkey's...
Report show at least 40 women killed in October 2017 across Turkey
At least 40 women were killed while 25 women have been subjected to sexual violence and 32 children were subjected to sexual abuse in...
Severe post-coup tortures by Ali Türkşen, a founder of Turkey’s new party, exposed
New evidences of severe torture done by Ali Türkşen, a former military officer who had been convicted in the Ergenekon case, who is also among...
Turkish government imprisons one more mother with her baby over links to Gülen movement
Turkish government, which has imprisoned 668 babies so far, has imprisoned one more mother together with her one-year-old daughter on Friday over her alleged...
Faruk Akkan, head of Cihan news agency, jailed for 15 months in Turkey without...
A top media executive and a veteran journalist has been languishing behind bars for 457 days without any evidence indicating that he has committed...
Deaf and dumb man imprisoned by Turkish government over claims of ‘chanting slogan’
Kenan Keklik, a 54 years old Kurdish man, who is deaf and dumb, was sentenced by a Turkish court to 3 years, 1 month and...
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