Category: Human Rights
Mayor Evren Demir Two Kurdish co-mayors of Ağrı in eastern Turkey were subjected to excessive police force, the Diken news website reported on Wednesday. Betül Yaşar, who was elected mayor of Ağrı from the Peoples’ ...
A purged civil servant has discovered an entry on the web page of Turkey’s Constitutional Court that points to a possible predisposition against the cases of individuals dismissed from public service due to alleged links ...
Human Rights Defenders (HRD) filed a criminal complaint with the Office of the German Federal Public Prosecutor (GBA) against 248 individuals including government agents over allegations of torture, the TR724 news website reported on Thursday. ...
Hundreds of children are locked up in Turkish prisons alongside their mothers. Authorities have said they now want to create more family-friendly living arrangements, but human rights activists doubt this will help. Huseyin Sahnaz remembers ...
AFP PHOTO Turkey’s Finance Minister Berat Albayrak has sent a thank you note to businessman Hüseyin Nuri Çomu, who was convicted of terrorism due to his alleged links to the Gülen movement, Turkish media reported ...
Canan Ş., one of the thousands of teachers who were fired by the Turkish government due to their alleged links to the Gülen movement, committed suicide in the western province of Denizli on Monday, Turkish ...
In the wake of the 2016 coup attempt, torture and abusive and degrading treatment are again becoming the norm in Turkish prisons, rather than the exception, Turkish news site Diken saidon Tuesday. “Allegations of torture in ...
Turkish officers escort people after their arrest for alleged links with Gulen in this April 26, 2017 file photo. — AFP ANKARA — Turkish police on Tuesday launched nationwide raids to detain 168 individuals suspected of ...
Turkey is seeking imprisonment for two Bloomberg journalists who allegedly attempted to damage Turkey’s economic stability through reporting on the country’s ongoing economic crisis. Turkey is the world’s leading jailer of journalists. While tens have been sentenced in recent ...
A Socialist Party councillor from Eindhoven has been arrested while on holiday in Turkey and accused for having links to terrorism. Murat Memis, who has been banned from leaving the country, is reportedly suspected of ...
