Torture

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

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

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

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

Turkish human rights lawyer Tugay Bek, under detention for the past 4 days, were battered by riot police officers when he resisted to be handcuffed behind back. According to Turkish media, Bek was taken to a hospital for medical control in Adana on Wednesday night. When a group of police officers wanted to handcuff him