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Man reaches out to Turkish MP saying incarcerated sick wife cannot access proper healthcare

The husband of a critically ill woman serving a sentence for conviction of links to the Gülen movement said his wife did not have...

Conviction of rights activists proves Turkish courts operate under Erdoğan’s instructions: HRW

The conviction of prominent businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala and his seven co-defendants is ample proof that Turkish courts operate under instructions from the...

Police detain 51 in protests sparked by Gezi Park trial verdict

Police on Tuesday detained 51 people who had gathered in İstanbul's Beyoğlu district to protest a verdict sentencing businessman and rights defender Osman Kavala...

72 face detention over alleged Gülen links in separate investigations

Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 72 people including active duty and former military officers as well as former military cadets due to...

Authorities refuse to release critically ill mother of 3 arrested for Gülen links

Gülden Aşık, a mother of three who was arrested after being sentenced to six years, three months in prison for alleged links to the...

Gezi Park trial verdict sparks protests across Turkey

A Turkish court's verdict sentencing leading businessman and rights defender Osman Kavala to life in prison and seven others to 18 years each on...

CHP lawmaker submits parliamentary questions regarding human rights violations in Turkish prisons

Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Özcan Purçu in a parliamentary question addressing the Turkish Ministry of Justice demanded to know whether the ministry was...

Uruguayan president finds Turkish FM’s ultranationalist salute at Armenians in Montevideo ‘regrettable’

Uruguay's President Luis Lacalle Pou on Sunday described as regrettable an ultranationalist hand gesture made by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu towards Armenians who...

Biden again describes past Armenian massacres as genocide

US President Joe Biden used Sunday's occasion of Armenian remembrance day to describe past mass atrocities by Ottomans as genocide, repeating his controversial description...

ECtHR declines to consider application from chronically ill inmate in Turkish prison

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has declined to consider an application filed on behalf of a Turkish inmate suffering from cancer who...

Opposition MP accuses justice ministry of lying about mistreatment, torture in Turkish prisons

Human rights defender and Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) lawmaker Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu has accused Turkey’s Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ of lying about mistreatment and...

Mothers with young children should not be incarcerated, says CİSST report

A recent report published by the Civil Society in the Penal System (CİSST) said under no circumstances should young children accompany their mothers in prison...

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