Lawyers allowed to visit jailed PKK leader Öcalan for first time in 8 years
Lawyers representing jailed leader of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Abdullah Öcalan visited him on May 2 for the first time since 2011,...
[Suspicious Death] Suspected UAE agent commits suicide in prison
Zaki Y. M. Hasan, one of two detainees held by Turkey on suspicion of spying for the United Arab Emirates has committed suicide in...
3,000 prisoners on hunger strike in Turkey, says rights group
The number of prisoners who have joined a hunger strike to press Turkish authorities to end the “isolation” in jail of Kurdish rebel leader...
Another suspicious death in Corum Province Prison, purged teacher found dead in his prison...
Another suspicious death in Corum Province Prison
Purged teacher Muzaffer Özcengiz found dead in his prison cell. He has been in solidarity confinement for 14...
European rights court orders Turkey to compensate citizen held in police custody when he...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ordered Turkey to pay compensation to a Turkish citizen who was taken into police custody when...
Another prisoner commits suicide in prison
Sirac Yuksek, who began participating in a hunger strike on 1 March 2019, committed suicide at the Osmaniye Type T Prison in the southern province...
Fifth inmate dies in a Turkish prison in a month
Yonca Akıncı, who has been incarcerated for four years at the Şakran Prison for Women in İzmir province, died on Monday due to medical...
Cumartesi Anneleri’ni 729’uncu hafta eyleminde: 26 yıl önce gözaltında kaybedilen Ali Kırlangıçlı’nın akıbetini sordu
Gözaltında kayıplarını sormak için 729 haftadır her Cumartesi bir araya gelen Cumartesi Anneleri, bugün yine İstanbul İHD'nin önündeydi... 1993 yılında gözaltında kaybedilen Ali Kırlangıçlı’nın...
US 2018 human rights report: Restrictions on fundamental freedoms continued in Turkey
A country report by the US State Department released on Wednesday stated that despite the official end of a two-year-long state of emergency in...
Young epileptic dies of heart attack in Turkish prison
Rıdvan Barış, an 18-year-old inmate in Turkey’s East, on Sunday died of a heart attack, allegedly to the disinterest of prison staff, according to...
Torture Suspects
