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US urges respect for due process in Diyarbakır co-mayor detentions

US State Department Spokesperson John Kirby has called on Turkish authorities to respect due process in the detention on Tuesday of two co-mayors of...

23 teachers detained in Kahramanmaraş over Gülen links

Twenty-three teachers who were recently suspended from their posts due to alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement have been detained in the southern...

Detention warrants issued for 73 air force pilots in anti-Gülen operation based in Konya

Detention warrants have been issued for 73 air force pilots at the 3rd Main Jet Airbase in Konya as part of post-coup operations targeting...

Turkey arrests 4 for attending local protests against gov’t media crackdown in 2014

An Edirne judge on Tuesday ruled for the arrest of four people who attended local protests against the detention of journalists Ekrem Dumanlı and...

HRW: Judge ignores large bruises on detainee’s body, rules for arrest

A high-ranking officer suspected of involvement in a failed coup in Turkey told a judge that he was severely beaten while in custody at...

HRW: Police dismiss torture allegations, claim detainee injured on coup night

An officer detained on accusations of involvement in an attempted coup in Turkey was ill-treated during interrogation, but police officers denied allegations of torture,...

HRW: Detainees don’t complain about torture for fear of further persecution

A forensic specialist told Human Rights Watch that Turkey’s post-coup detainees prefer not to talk about bruises on their bodies resulting from torture as...

HRW: Police threaten detained teacher with raping wife to extract confession

An Ankara lawyer told Human Rights Watch that his client, a detained teacher, agreed to confess to accusations leveled against him after police threatened...

HRW: Woman deprived of food, water during detention in Turkish prison

Detained shortly after a failed coup in Turkey, a woman told Human Rights Watch that she was deprived of adequate food and water and...

HRW: Detained Turkish teacher hospitalized after beating during interrogation

A teacher in Antalya told his wife that police had beaten him so severely during interrogation that his intestines were destroyed and that he...

HRW: Detainee suffers from internal bleeding after torture in Turkish prison

An Ankara lawyer told Human Rights Watch that her client suffered from internal bleeding as a result of torture by police officers. In a 43-page report,...

HRW: Turkish police strip detainees naked, beat them on testicles with baton

A lawyer reported to Human Rights Watch that five people were taken to a darkened room, stripped naked, beaten on their testicles with a...

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