Tag: Detention without Trial Torture
The Diyarbakır Bar Association has announced that scores of inmates in a high security prison in eastern Elazığ province were physically battered by guards, the Artı Gerçek news website reported on Friday. After a visit ...
Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, deputy, in parliament. Yusuf Bilge Tunç, a former civil servant who was fired from Turkey’s Defense Ministry, has been missing since Tuesday, according to Turkish deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, who raised concerns ...
A teacher who was removed from his job and subsequently arrested due to his alleged links to the Gülen movement in the aftermath of a failed coup in Turkey in July 2016 has said he ...
Gökhan Açıkkollu Bold Medya has released a video showing the negligence of police officers in the death of Gökhan Açıkkollu, a purged history teacher who died of a heart attack while under detention in 2016. ...
The Ankara Bar Association on Thursday released a statement reporting that four Gülen followers who turned up in police custody after being missing since February are not allowed to see any lawyers. According to the ...
Sezgin Tanrıkulu, İstanbul MP from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) (AFP. / AFP PHOTO / YASIN AKGUL) A report drafted by a main opposition party deputy in Turkey has revealed that 231 violations ...
Saturday Mothers, a group of activists and relatives seeking the whereabouts of loved ones who disappeared while in police custody in the 1990s, held a protest on Saturday with the wives of abductees who were ...
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. ...
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 ...
