Category: Human Rights

Turkish authorities have ordered the detention of a total of 183 suspects in the last 10 days, part of a relentless witch-hunt against the Gülen movement, according to reports by the state-run Anadolu news agency. ...

Radical Islamist Turkish daily Yeni Akit columnist Mehtap Yılmaz’s hate campaign targeting cancer patient Ümit Gökhasan and his release from prison delayed the medical treatment of the former police superintendent, who died on Monday. Yılmaz had ...

Former Air Force Commander Gen. Akın Öztürk was severely tortured. Elif Uzun Sümercan, a previous deputy chief of the Ankara Police Department’s counterterrorism unit who was accused of torturing former commander of the Turkish Air ...

Turkey’s interior minister, Süleyman Soylu, has claimed that Kurdish villagers Servet Turgut and Osman Şiban, who were allegedly tortured by Turkish security forces in September before Turgut died of his injuries, had been aiding members ...

A Turkish journalist who has been in jail since March 2018 on terrorism charges has written in a letter from prison about the “inhumanly” unsanitary conditions the inmates face, saying they are forced to live ...

Afghan and Pakistani refugees waiting for daily work in Istanbul, Turkey. The majority of Turkish society is resisting accommodating refugees, and migration policies are ineffective in integration, which is pushing refugees into ghettoization and causing ...

Turkish authorities should stop harassing journalists working for the Mesopotamia News Agency (MA) and immediately release reporter Dindar Karataş, who was arrested on November 24, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said in a statement ...

Ankara has ousted 151 mayors from office on accusations of terrorism in the last six years, replacing them with government-appointed bureaucrats, Turkey’s Interior Ministry said on Thursday. Almost all the ousted mayors are from the ...

Süleyman Soylu Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has announced that a total of 292,000 people have been detained while 96,000 others have been jailed due to alleged links to the Gülen movement since a failed ...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that secret witness testimony, which Turkish courts have accepted as evidence, particularly in the trials of political dissidents, cannot be considered sufficient evidence to warrant convictions, ...