Human Rights Abuses

Ruling AK Party member threatens main opposition leader with death

Emrullah Kavuz, a local member of the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AK Party) has threatened, along with a group of men, the main opposition Republican Peoples’ Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu. In a video clip widely shared on social media on June 21, Kavuz addresses to Kilicdaroglu for his role in the recently organized […]

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Pro-gov’t Sabah daily sets up hotline to profile Gulenists in Europe

The pro-government Sabah daily has established a hotline to receive tips about the the Europe-based followers of the Gülen Movement, which the President along with top state officials pinned the blame on for the July 15 coup attempt. Sabah Avrupa, the newspaper’s special edition for Turkish expats in Germany called on its readers to snitch

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Turkish gov’t removes child from foster family over Gülen links

A 9-year-old girl was separated from her foster family as the adoptive father is being under investigation over his alleged links to the Gulen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15, 2016 failed coup attempt. An official from Turkey’s Ministry of Family and Social Policy in late November, 2016 told media that

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Inmates subjected to inhuman treatment, torture in Turkish prisons: opposition

Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Şafak Pavey, who has shared her impressions from visits she paid to some well-known prisons in Turkey, has said there is widespread maltreatment, insult and torture of inmates in the prisons. Pavey, who has visited Silivri, Sincan, Sakarya and Bakırköy prisons numerous times since the declaration of emergency rule in

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Principal of Gülen-linked school, businessman abducted in Malaysia

Turgay Karaman, the principal of Time International School in Ipoh, Malaysia, was abducted by unidentified persons as he left his house for a meeting in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday. According to a report submitted by Karaman’s lawyer to the Kuala Lumpur police on Tuesday, Karaman was abducted by five men while he was going to

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Polling observer suffers broken neck after opposing referendum irregularity

Ballot box official Melisa Yet has ended up with a fractured neck as she was attacked by whom she calls the ruling Justice and Development Party’s youth members during Apr 16 referendum. Yet argued during the vote counting that one of the Yes votes should be considered invalid as the voting slip had a slight

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