Hospitalized Prisoner Sise Bingöl Should Be Released
85-year-old ill prisoner Sise Bingöl, who has been held in the Tarsus Type T Women’s Closed Prison in Adana, has been taken to hospital....
Turkey’s top torture documentation expert Dr. Şebnem Korur Fincancı receives Hessian Peace Prize
Turkish human rights defender and forensic doctor Şebnem Korur Fincancı is awarded on Friday the Hessian Peace Prize, given each year to individuals who...
Man jailed over Gülen links dies as result of poor medical care in prison
Mehmet Özbir, 41, on Tuesday died of a cancer that developed when he was in pretrial detention over Gülen links and which caused his...
At least 58 suspicious deaths identified in Turkish prisons since July 15, 2016
At least 58 suspicious deaths have occurred in Turkish prisons since a controversial coup attempt on July 15, 2016, said a report released on...
Health is most critical issue in overcrowded Turkish prisons, says NGO executive
Civil Society Association for Law Enforcement Systems (CISST) executive board member Berivan Korkut has said health is the most critical issue in overcrowded Turkish...
European court rejects jailed Kurdish leader torture claim
ANKARA, Turkey The European Court of Human Rights has rejected a complaint alleging that imprisoned Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan had been subjected to...
HRW: 7 civilians killed in Turkish military’s possible war crime in northern Iraq
Turkish military operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) that killed at least seven civilians in Iraq’s Kurdistan region over a year should...
Turkish gov’t boycotts European human rights conference due to JWF’s participation
Turkey is the only country boycotting this year’s Human Dimensions Implementation Meeting (HDIM), Europe’s largest human rights conference sponsored by the Organisation for Security...
“Death in Custody- Right to Life in Turkish Prisons“
The Gülen movement-affiliated Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF), which is based in New York, has expressed its concerns on “the clear trend of increasingly...
Turkish prisons at 17 percent overcapacity with 246K people behind bars
Turkish prisons are hosting some 35,000 prisoners more than its overall capacity, according to official data.
In a letter to a parliamentary inquirty, the Justice...
Torture Suspects
