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Torture and Inhuman Treatment in Turkey: 2021 in Review

Turkey has experienced a marked resurgence of torture and ill-treatment in custody over the past six years and especially since a coup attempt on...

Emirati general accused of torture elected new Interpol president at İstanbul meeting

An Emirati general accused of torture was elected president of Interpol at the organization’s meeting in İstanbul on Thursday, despite the concerns of human...

Abducted and tortured, educator İnandı gives details of his ordeal at first hearing of his trial

Orhan İnandı, a Turkish-Kyrgyz educator rendered to Turkey from Kyrgyzstan by Turkish intelligence, said at his first court hearing on Tuesday that he was tortured...

Turkey’s top court fines gov’t for torture in 5 cases, demands investigation into perpetrators

Turkey’s Constitutional Court ruled in favor of applicants who claimed that they had faced torture and inhuman treatment in five different cases and ordered...

I was electrocuted, beaten and made impotent, sexual torture victim says

Ayhan Demir, 45, said he was made impotent as a result of the sexual torture and electrocution he was subjected to during his detention...

Turkish-Kyrgyz educator abducted by MİT says statement taken under torture

Orhan İnandı, a Turkish-Kyrgyz educator who was kidnapped in Kyrgyzstan on May 31 and illegally brought to Turkey by the National Intelligence Organization (MİT)...

Top Turkish court rules former teacher was tortured in police custody

Turkey’s Constitutional Court ruled on May 18, 2021 that a former teacher arrested for links to the Gülen movement was tortured in detention and...

Activist Öztürk says she was subjected to brutal torture in secret detention center

Ayten Öztürk, 47, who describes herself as a socialist activist, said she was subjected to severe torture and sexual harassment in a secret detention...

Opposition MP questions role of public officers in enforced disappearances in Turkey

The role of public officers in the enforced disappearances of the last two years has been taken to the Turkish parliament by Filiz Kerestecioğlu,...

Turkey’s top court fines gov’t for torture in Afyon province, demands investigation into perpetrators

Turkish Constitutional Court ruled in favor of an applicant who claimed that he was tortured for 25 days during his detention at Afyon police...

Members of anti-gov’t Furkan Foundation allegedly tortured, threatened by Turkish police

Police allegedly subjected three members of the Furkan Foundation, an anti-government religious group, who were detained on September 10 to torture and mistreatment at...

Educator İnandı tortured and his arm broken in 3 places, wife says

Orhan İnandı, a Turkish-Kyrgyz educator rendered from Kyrgyzstan by Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT), was tortured and his right arm broken in three places by...

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