Torture in Turkish Prisons

Five advocacy and human rights groups urged the United Nations Committee Against Torture (UNCAT) to initiate an inquiry into increasing cases of torture and ill treatment...

A new report from the Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) titled “Tortured to Death” exposes the case of 42-year-old history teacher Gökhan Açıkkollu, who...

A comprehensive report, released last week by the Platform for Peace & Justice (PPJ) on prison conditions in Turkey under a state of emergency...

Thirteen inmates including journalists Erdoğan Alayumat and Serkan Erdoğan from the Dicle news agency (Dihaber) and Özgürlükçü Demokrasi daily, respectively, both of which were...

Founding President of the Turkish Human Rights Foundation (TİHV) Professor Şebnem Korur Fincancı said on Sunday that some prison guards who refused to follow...

Human rights groups in Turkey said on Monday that Turkey is experiencing its worst period in recent times in terms of human rights abuses...

Taci Şentürk, a Turkish teacher who was working in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku, was taken by police to an unknown place after UN...

The torture, ill-treatment, abusive, inhumane and degrading treatment of people who are deprived of their liberties in Turkey’s detention centers and prisons has become...

Two people detained over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement said during their hearing before a judge that they were threatened with rape...

A man jailed over alleged links to a failed coup in Turkey last July said during a recent hearing in Kırıkkale that he may...