Torture

Dismissed pro-Kurdish mayor, 1-year-old son arrested as mother battered during operation

Lice Municipality’s former co-mayorRezan Zuğurli was arrested along with her 1-year-old son while her mother Firuze Zuğurli was battered by police officers during the operation on Thursday. Zuğurli, the co-mayor of the Diyarbakir’s Lice Municipality until she was removed as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown against the Kurdish regions on Feb 10, was earlier sentenced […]

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Client fearfully waiting his turn to be tortured at Ankara police station: lawyer

An Ankara lawyer who wants to remain anonymous has said his/her client, detained over his links to the Gülen movement, was waiting his turn in fears to be tortured at a detention facility in Turkey’s capital. In his/her letter to the Human Rights Association (İHD), the lawyer said people detained as part of an investigation

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Turkish prisoner says tied to chair, pushed into sea while under custody

A Bartin man, identified with his initials D.G., was bound to a chair and pushed into sea on multiple times as police officers tortured him while under custody, according to Aktifhaber online news portal. Detained as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement in the northern province of Bartin in October 2016, D.G. was

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Prison guards beat children during visit to imprisoned mother

Two out of three children of Raziye Soner, a pro-Kurdish Republican Peoples’ Party (HDP) member who was arrested over terror charges on Dec 24, 2016, were beaten by police during a visit to their imprisoned mother. Soner reportedly attempted to greet the visitors of other inmates during a visit hour at Tarsus Women’s Prison, last

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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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Former warden at gov’t-closed dormitory says suffered sexual assault, beatings, asphyxiation in prison

M.E., a 34-year-old Turkish man who used to work at a student dormitory affiliated with the Gülen movement, has told the New York Times that he was subjected to sexual assault, beatings and asphyxiation in prison. In last part of State of Emergency article series, Times interviewed two followers of the Gülen movement who live “like a

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Recently released HDP deputy detained again after she said subjected to torture

Besime Konca, a deputy from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) who was detained on Monday night and released on probation on Tuesday morning, was detained again on Tuesday evening. Another HDP deputy, Çağlar Demirel, was also detained along with Konca on Monday night, but she was arrested. The deputies were detained as part of

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Mother of 4 arrested after husband, fearing torture, flees police

Police detained an Antalya-based housewife after failing to reach her husband who has being wanted for his former employment at International Antalya University. The university has long been under investigation for its alleged ties to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt. A recent tip submitted to Turkey

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