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Amnesty poll shows 82 percent of Turks believe human rights are under attack

More than 82 percent of the Turkish public thinks that people’s rights and freedoms are being violated, according to a poll conducted by MetroPoll at the...

Report reveals at least 663 rights violations in 32 Turkish prisons in 3 months

A report drafted by Turkey’s Human Rights Association (İHD) has revealed that at least 663 rights violations took place in 32 prisons in Turkey’s Marmara region...

Holding inmates far from families a violation of human rights, ECtHR says in Turkey ruling

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Tuesday ruled that Turkey had violated the right to respect for private and family life of inmates Abdülkerim Avşar...

Survey: As human rights violations in Turkey increase, reports in media decrease

Although there were significantly more human rights violations in Turkey in 2017 than in 2015, coverage of the violations declined in the Turkish media,...

[VIDEO] UN urges Turkey to grant access to 3 Gülen followers detained in Malaysia

The United Nations Human Rights Committee has urged Turkey to confirm the whereabouts of three Turkish nationals who were detained in Malaysia at Ankara's...

Zonguldak police tortured purge victim in forest after detaining him in raid

Police officers from the Zonguldak Police Department detained A.T. in a raid on his house last August over links to the faith-based Gülen movement...

Keskin says torture has never been legitimized to this extent

Lawyer and human rights activist Eren Keskin said a state of emergency (OHAL) has been used to cover up all violations in Turkey, saying...

[VIDEO] Another woman who just gave birth detained over links to Gülen movement

Filiz Y., a 30-year-old woman who gave birth at Mersin City Hospital last night, has been detained over alleged links to the Güen movement,...

Turkish court bans access to websites exposing gov’t graft, purge, torture in prisons

An Ankara court has banned access to YouTube videos that expose the involvement of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the family...

Police wait outside hospital to detain woman following delivery

A group of police officers awaited outside Antalya's Alanya BaÅŸkent Hospital in order to detain a woman who had given birth several hours earlier,...

PM Yıldırım admits new commission aims to delay ECtHR petitions

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has admitted that a commission recently established by government decree to investigate lawsuits filed during a state of emergency...

Turkey bans books from outside in prisons other than Quran

Turkey's Justice Ministry banned newspapers and books from outside except for the Quran for prisoners as of Jan. 9, according to a tweet from...

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