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Turkish Supreme Court of Appeals upholds prison sentence handed down to rights advocate lawmaker

Turkey's top court on Friday upheld a prison sentence of two years, six months handed down to pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Ömer...

Enforced disappearances worryingly common in Turkey, say human rights activists

Enforced disappearances are becoming worryingly common in Turkey, and most disappearances are not effectively investigated by prosecutors, said an international group of human rights...

2 HDP deputies under investigation due to comments about Gara operation

Turkish prosecutors launched have investigations into two prominent lawmakers from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) over their remarks critical of a Turkish military...

European lawmakers stand with prominent human rights activist Gergerlioğlu

A group of European lawmakers, academics and activists expressed solidarity with human rights defender and Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu and...

State-run bank agrees to pay quake aid to purge victim after outrage

Turkey’s state-run Vakıfbank, which had blocked assistance to the victim of a recent earthquake on the grounds that she was fired in a purge...

Boğaziçi students join victims of Turkey’s strip-searches, deposition shows

Some students who were detained during demonstrations in protest of the appointment of a rector to the İstanbul-based Boğaziçi University by Turkish President Recep...

Rights advocate deputy files lawsuit against minister who branded him a ‘terrorist’

Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a prominent human rights activist and member of the Turkish Parliament from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party, has filed a lawsuit...

Opposition MP files complaint against police chief over inaction on strip-search claims

Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, an MP from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and a human rights activist, has filed a criminal complaint against Mesut...

22 deputies submit parliamentary question on strip-searches in Turkey’s prisons

The women's council of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has submitted a question to the Turkish Parliament about an increasing number of allegations...

Scores of women tell of unlawful strip-searches in Turkey’s prisons after AKP deputy’s denial

A number of women subjected to unlawful strip-searches in Turkey’s prisons have come forward to talk about their experiences in videos shared on social...

AKP deputy denies strip-searches in Turkey’s prisons, accuses prominent MP of terrorizing parliament

In the wake of outrage on social media over strip-searches in Turkey’s prisons and detention centers, ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy group...

Journalist speaks out on abuse in Turkish prison after launch of social media campaign against strip-searches

Nur Ener Kılınç, a journalist who used to write for the Yeni Asya newspaper, after the launch of a social media campaign protesting the...

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