Tag: Detention without Trial Torture
PHOTO: Amnesty (illustrative) Former public servants who were detained on Wednesday over membership in the faith-based Gülen movement were subjected to ill treatment and threatened with sexual abuse, according to an opposition deputy, the Euronews ...
caricature by Stefan SImonowitz, Amnesty International’s media manager for Europe and Turkey PHOTO: Euronews Hundreds of people have been detained in Turkey for commenting or reporting on Turkey’s recent military offensive in northeast Syria and ...
A Turkish teacher said three unidentified men tried to abduct him in Ankara as he was about to get into his car but that they fled after he started shouting and managed to attract a ...
Former member of Turkey’s Constitutional Court Alparslan Altan. PHOTO: Cumhuriyet A panel of five judges at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Monday rejected Turkey’s request to refer to the court’s Grand Chamber ...
Veli Saçılık Veli Saçılık, a purged human rights defender, was allegedly subjected to excessive force on Thursday when he was taken into custody during a protest in Ankara against the Turkish government’s removal from office ...
US Department of State building. The US Department of State on Thursday updated its travel advisory on Turkey, urging increased caution due to terrorism and arbitrary detentions. “Updated Turkey Travel Advisory was published last night. ...
It is disturbing and disappointing that the government has once again deported an asylum seeker and his family without due process. According to news reports, Arif Komis, a Turkish school teacher, and his family were ...
The letter from a medical student who begs for life from Turkish prison. Münise Kübra Çakırçoban, a medical student who was put behind bars three years ago due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, ...
Turkey is described as an open prison by many inside the country with human rights and democracy seriously eroded by the brutal regime of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. There are more journalists in prison than ...
A new report from Human Rights Watch on forcible disappearances in Turkey called for an “effective investigation into credible testimony” from one of the most recent men to go missing for months. The New York-based Human ...