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Wife of jailed Kurdish politician calls on gov’t to release inmates amid coronavirus outbreak

Başak Demirtaş, the wife of Selahattin Demirtaş, a jailed Kurdish politician, on Friday urged the Turkish government to immediately release prisoners due to the coronavirus outbreak. Posting...

Turkish businessman suffers knife attack in prison, reporter says

A Turkish businessman who was jailed due to his alleged links to the Gülen movement was attacked in Menemen Prison in İzmir, according to a Turkish...

Former Turkish police chief jailed after 2013 graft probe attacked by guards in prison: report

Former Turkish police chief Ömer Köse, who has been imprisoned since 2014 due to his role in the December 2013 graft probes that implicated high-level government officials,...

80 university students detained over Gülen links subjected to torture: report

Eighty university students who were detained in police operations on the morning of Feb. 28 due to their alleged links to the Gülen movement...

Toddler bursts into tears when refused entry to prison to reunite with mother

A 3-year-old boy burst into tears when he was refused entry to a prison where he has been accompanying his mother since February 2017, according to...

Zaman journalist Kabakçı released on judicial probation 20 months after incarceration

Journalist Şirin Kabakçı, who used to be Konya bureau chief for the Zaman daily, Turkey’s highest circulating newspaper before its takeover and closure by...

Demirtaş rules out running for mayor of Diyarbakır in local elections

Jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş, the former co-chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has said he does not have any intention of running...

Demirtaş claims political pressure on his case is mounting

Jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş, the former co-chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), argued in a statement that following a ruling by the...

743 children jailed with their mothers in Turkey, rights group reveals

There were a total of 743 children jailed along with their mothers in Turkey’s prisons as of Nov. 16, according to a report released...

Critical journalist Aksoy arrested again to serve remaining sentence

Critical Turkish journalist Murat Aksoy was sent back to prison on Thursday after a regional appeals court last month upheld a two year, one...

Ex-Zaman columnist Ali Ünal sentenced 19.5 years in prison

The Uşak 2nd High Criminal Court handed down a sentence of nineteen-and-a-half years to columnist for the now-closed Zaman daily Ali Ünal on charges...

70-year-old man jailed over Gülen links begs for justice in letter from prison

Seventy-year-old Alaattin Gökhan, who has been behind bars for 800 days due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, desperately calls for justice to...

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