The Turkish-based Human Rights Association (İHD) and several rights advocates have called on the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) president to vocally criticize...
Turkey’s Human Rights Association (İHD) in a press statement condemned the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) “punishment” of civilians after two men reportedly went...
A
growing number of inmates have been reporting torture and ill-treatment in
prisons located in Central Anatolia, the Artı Gerçek news website reported on
Wednesday, citing a...
There are 1,333 ailing inmates in Turkish prisons, 457
of whom are in critical condition, according to Turkey’s Human Rights
Foundation (İHD), the Cumhuriyet daily reported...
The
number of prisoners who have joined a hunger strike to press Turkish
authorities to end the “isolation” in jail of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan
has...
Turkey’s human rights organizations have said almost 6,000 people were subjected to torture or mistreatment in the country in 2017, the T24 news website...
Prisoners in two prisons in the southern Turkish province of Mersin have allegedly faced maltreatment, physical violence and torture as well as being threatened...
