Report: Turkish man in police custody for 7 days loses mental health because of...

A report by the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) shows that a Turkish man who was kept under police custody for 7 days in...

Int’l tribunal rebukes Turkey’s Erdoğan for war crimes against his own people

One month before the presidential election in Turkey, an international tribunal has issued a stinging condemnation of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, charging him...

Turkish police reportedly shoot Kurdish boy in Muş province

A 12-year-old Kurdish boy named Veysel Toplu has reportedly been severely wounded after being shot by an armored police vehicle in Turkey’s eastern Muş...

Pro-Kurdish singer beaten in Turkey’s Bakırköy Prison after refusing strip search

Pınar Aydınlar, a famous folk singer and party council member of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), was beaten by guards at İstanbul’s Bakırköy Prison for...

75 years old retired judge Perihan Pulat was beaten by police during a sit...

Perihan Pulat, 75, sustained several injuries after police used excessive force to disperse protestors in Ankara’s Yüksel Street on May 1. Several public servants, Acun...

Autopsy report confirms jailed Turkish teacher Halime Gülsu died due to denial of crucial...

Halime Gülsu, a 34-year-old unemployed English teacher, died in jail on Saturday because she was denied the necessary treatment for a chronic disease she...

Cellmate: Teacher abducted by Turkey’s MİT from Malaysia subjected to torture in Ankara

Alaaddin Duman, a teacher in Malaysia who in 2016 was abducted by agents of the notorious Turkish National Intelligence Organisation (MİT) from Malaysia’s capital...

Turkish journalist: Gülen followers should be forced to commit suicide

Pro-government Turkish journalist and writer Fazıl Duygun has called on authorities to force people jailed over alleged links to the Gülen movement to commit...

Visually impaired Turkish journalist transferred to remote prison, held in windowless cell

Visually impaired Turkish journalist Cüneyt Arat, who was jailed in July 2017 due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, has been sent a...

UN calls on Turkey to stop jailing pregnant and postpartum women with children

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday said 600 women with young children were being held in...

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