Human Rights
Top-scorer law student’s life devastated
One of the 80 undergraduate students detained in the raid in Ankara is the top-scorer in the Secondary School Placement...
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Imprisoned police chief beaten by guards
Entering the prison cell where former police chief Ömer Köse was kept alone, five or six guards assaulted him. Details...
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“We should have killed you on July 15,” police tells detainees in Ankara
Eighty university students who are in custody in the Ankara Police Department's Anti-Terror Branch are being interrogated, under severe threats...
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University placement exam top scorer’s right to education denied over “terror” charges
Emine Altın, an arrested undergraduate student who managed to enroll in a Law Faculty with a top score, is not...
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Soldier detained in July 15 putsch bid tells what led to iconic “barn” photo
One of the most iconic photographs of the botched coup of July 15, 2016, was the naked soldiers handcuffed in...
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Bar Association files criminal complaint over enforced disappearences
Ankara Bar Association compiled a joint study report on seven people who became victims of enforced disappearance in 2019. The...
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Charred teacup serves as souvenir for Kurukoy’s history of torture
It has been three years since the blockade of Turkey's eastern town of Kurukoy, which saw the torture of 39...
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Spouse of businessman Medeni Arifoğlu, who succumbed to cancer, reveals murder by negligence
Medeni Arifoglu was one of the best-known businessmen in Turkey's eastern province of Bingöl. He was awarded in 2012 by...
Read moreDismissed lieutenant commits suicide by hanging himself in a mosque
Former Lieutenant Adem Gürbüz committed suicide by hanging himself in the pulpit of the Istanbul Dudullu Central Mosque. It was...
Read morePolice chief Ömer Köse under torture in prison
Imprisoned former police chief Ömer Köse is being tortured in Tekirdağ F Type Prison. Ömer Köse is kept alone in...
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