Category: Human Rights

The Turkish government plans to build 20 new prisons in 2023 and eight more in the next two years as more and more people end up behind bars in Turkey. Data from the Ministry of ...

CHP deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu Cases of human rights violations in Turkey in December included 380 incidents of mistreatment, with 86 of them taking place in prisons, according to a report by a main opposition party ...

The Turkish government renewed its assault on press freedom in 2022 ahead of the 2023 presidential election, including imprisoning journalists, using the regulatory authorities to exert financial pressure and capitalizing on a new media law ...