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Conditions in Ankara’s Sincan Prison inhumane, says Turkish Parliament sub-committee

April 9, 2021

Inmates are suffering from freezing temperatures, foul drinking water, poor treatment and the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ankara’s Sincan Prison, said...

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Jailed mother says baby contracted dysentery in prison, yet denied medication

January 28, 2020

Arzu Akçakaya, one of the more than 11,000 women who have been jailed as part of a government crackdown on followers of the Gülen movement, has...

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Jailed Kurdish politician has no life-threatening condition, hospital says

December 3, 2019

Selahattin Demirtaş, the imprisoned former co-leader of Turkey's Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), who was taken to a hospital for an examination on Monday, nearly a...

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Prison demands inmate’s defense for keeping newborn daughter’s sock in locker

January 7, 2019

A document shared by an opposition deputy on Sunday revealed that a Turkish prison administration demanded an official defense from a purge victim to...

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Jailed former HDP leader’s letter to spouse confiscated by prison

January 4, 2019

Başak Demirtaş, the wife of former co-chair of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtaş, who is currently imprisoned on charges of terrorism, has...

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