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Demirtaş says gov’t pressuring courts to keep him in prison

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtaş on Sunday said the government is keeping him in prison to guarantee victory in snap...

YSK refuses to allow Demirtaş to participate in political TV show by phone

Turkey's Supreme Election Board (YSK) on Wednesday refused a request by Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed presidential candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), to...

CHP presidential candidate İnce visits rival Demirtaş in prison

Main opposition Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) presidential candidate Muharrem İnce on Wednesday visited pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy and presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtaş...

IFEX launches signature campaign to ensure release of teacher jailed with baby

The International Freedom of Exchange (IFEX) has launched a signature campaign calling for the release of Turkish teacher Ayşe Çelik, who was jailed with...

Report: Teacher dies in prison due to lack of medication

Halime Gülsu, who was arrested on Feb. 20, 2018 for allegedly helping the faith-based Gülen movement, died on Saturday in prison in Mersin province,...

Jailed journalist Ünal: My screams for justice have faded away in a bottomless pit

Mustafa Ünal (50), a jailed veteran journalist and former Ankara bureau chief for the shuttered Zaman daily, has urged the judges in his trial...

70,000 students behind bars in Turkey

A total of 70,000 students who have either been convicted of a crime or are in pretrial detention are currently in Turkey’s jails, while...

Woman jailed over Gülen links not released despite serious health risk

Birgül Bulut, one the more than 17,000 women who have been jailed in Turkey in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt on July...

Blind journalist transferred to remote prison, held in windowless cell

Visually impaired Turkish journalist Cüneyt Arat, who was jailed in July 2017 due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, has been sent a...

Photo shows jailed teacher at graves of relatives who died after prison visit

A photo showing Burak Aydın, a teacher jailed for alleged Gülen links, visiting the graves of four of his family members who died in...

HDP deputy: Prison population in Turkey increased by 100 percent in past 6 years

A deputy from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Ertuğrul Kürkçü, has complained about overcrowding in Turkey’s prisons, saying that the country’s prison population...

HDP deputies ask gov’t to explain torture claims of jailed Kurdish politician  

Several deputies from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) have directed questions to the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government in Parliament about...

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