UN report exposes torture in Turkey

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday exposed details of torture cases in Turkey last year and...

Jailed Turkey’s main opposition deputy Berberoğlu: I have been isolated for a year

Enis Berberoğlu, the jailed deputy of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), has complained of isolation in his prison cell to Pınar Türenç,...

Actor-director battered, threatened with death in police custody

Actor-director Emre Kılınç, detained a few days ago, has been threatened with death in police custody, according his lawyer. Lawyer Nagehan Avçil said her client...

42-year-old cancer patient dies due to Turkish prison authorities’ negligence

Forty-two-year-old Deniz Hakan Şen, who was detained by Turkish police and later jailed by a court in October 2017 over alleged links to the...

Eighty women reportedly being tortured under custody by Turkish police at Mersin Provincial Security Directorate

A total of 80 women, including female high school and university students, who were detained, have severely been tortured under police custody at the...

UK-educated computer science professor, jailed for 13 months, dies of liver cancer

Ahmet Turan Özcerit, a UK-educated computer science professor who spent as long as 13 months under arrest as part of the government’s post-coup witch...