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...
Close to 2 million inmates in Turkey's prisons have filed complaints of human rights violations stemming from a variety of reasons that include poor...
Sexual harassment and unlawful strip-searches in Turkish prisons and detention centers were protested on Twitter on Tuesday and Wednesday after human rights activist and...
A total of 16 inmates have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in northern Turkey’s Karabük Prison as cases countrywide have increased dramatically, reaching 1,866,345 on...
Selahattin Demirtaş, the imprisoned former chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), described the current situation in Turkey's prisons as a "human tragedy"...
The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) on Wednesday published reports on its...
Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül has announced that Turkey, which has been witnessing mass arrests since a failed coup in July 2016, has constructed 94...
The
US Department of State on Wednesday released its annual human rights report on
Turkey in which it listed ongoing widespread rights violations as well as
impunity...
The occupancy rate of Turkish prisons has reached 117 percent, the Sözcü daily reported on Monday.
According to recent data released by Turkey’s Justice Ministry,...
