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Journalist tells story of Turkey’s post-coup detainees tortured in Ankara building

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Turkish journalist Cevheri Guven has claimed in a video footage that post-coup detainees are being taken to a specially-equipped building in Ankara where they are subject to torture . In a recent video recording published by the online news portal Bold Medya, Guven tells the story of Turkey’s post-coup torture victims who claimed to be […]

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Former Turkish NATO officer reflects on his days in Ankara prison: Inmates given electric shocks to sign forced confessions

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Former Lt. Cdr. Cafer Topkaya, a purged and jailed Turkish naval officer who was assigned to NATO prior to a failed coup in Turkey, has told Deutsche Welle that he is coming out of the shadows to relate what he experienced “for those who can’t meet the press, who can’t meet with journalists, who can’t

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[VIDEO] Jailed doctor did not commit suicide but died due to torture: family

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Family members of İbrahim Halil Özyavuz, a medical doctor who was jailed in May over alleged links to the Gülen movement, said that Özyavuz did not commit suicide as previously reported but rather died after he was subjected to heavy torture by police officers while he was in pretrial detention. Turkish media reports had said

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Dismissed public officer suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder after 7 days in custody: report

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A report by the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) shows that a Turkish man who was kept under police custody for 7 days in the wake of a controversial coup attempt on July 15, 2016 lost his mental health because of torture, ill-treatment and trauma. A Turkish public official who said that he was exposed

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Villagers tortured by soldiers in Turkey’s Hakkari, report claims

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Two villagers from Turkey’s Kurdish-majority Hakkari province have been tortured for hours by a group of soldiers while they were shepherding their sheep, according to media. Mezopotampya online news agency said Friday that Ramazan Tas and Nasır Taş, two shepherds from Hakkari’s Yufkali village were stopped by a group of 8 soldiers at a rural

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International bar association says concerned about torture against jailed Turkish lawyers

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The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) has said that it is concerned with the reported allegations of torture and mistreatment against detained lawyers in Turkey. In a written statement to mark the 2018 Day of the Endangered Lawyer on Jan 24, the IBAHRI’s co-chair Hans Corell said the institute is deeply concerned by the large

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Pro-Kurdish party leader says part of Urfa police station turned into torture center

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İbrahim Halil Baran, chairman of the Partiya Kurdistani (PAKURD), on Monday refuted Human Rights Day remarks made by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that no massacres, oppression or torture had taken place in Turkish history, saying he was tortured during the 13 days he was in detention. “Tayyip Erdoğan said, ‘There is no torture in

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Coup suspect stripped naked, private parts exposed to former subordinates: witness

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A number of Turkish military officers including former Air Forces Commander Akın Öztürk were exposed to torture, severe treatment and corporal punishment by security officers along with privates after the failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016, According to an article written by Turkish journalist Cevheri Güven titled “Game in a Sports Hall in Ankara,”

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Lawyer tortured, threatened with rape of family members: rights groups

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The Human Rights Association (İHD) and the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) held a press conference on Tuesday regarding allegations of the torture of lawyer Mustafa Koçak during a 10-day period of detention, the Haberdar news website reported. At the press conference İHD Co-chair lawyer Gülseren Yoleri said Koçak was detained without any grounds

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Radiology professor, extradited from Bahrain, gets tortured in Turkish jail: lawyer

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In yet another sign of the abuse of the Interpol system by Turkish government, Harvard-educated Turkish professor was extradited to Turkey to endure torture and ill-treatment in notorious Turkish prison despite he was under the United Nations (UN) protection in Bahrain. Murat Acar, 46-year-old medical doctor who was working as a professor and consultant at

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