The Witness Protection Act, a part of the “Law of Police Powers”, entered into force in 2008 in Turkey. Following the act, several people have been imprisoned by the testimonies of secret witnesses. Large numbers of political prisoners have been convicted and held in prisons due to these kinds of testimonies.Read More
Thirty three political prisoners in Diyarbakır ‘D-Type’ prison in Turkey were transferred to ‘F-Type High Security Closed’ prisons.Read More
Cemil Kırbayır, a left-wing activist, was detained in September 1980 in Kars province and allegedly tortured to death in October 1980. The Kırbayır case remained un-prosecuted for decades. Berfo Kırbayır was an activist mother and had been searching for her missing son, Cemil Kırbayır. She symbolized the search for justice for relatives of the disappeared […]Read More
Turkey’s high court of appeals, the Court of Cassation, upheld the prison sentences of fourteen lawyers from the Progressive Lawyers Association (ÇHD). They had previously been convicted of terrorism charges and duly sentenced. Aytaç Ünsal, who had been on a 213-day death fast in protest against his and his colleagues’ unfair convictions, was among the […]Read More
Shop owner Hacı Esvet Şenyaşar and two of his sons, Adil and Celal, lost their lives as a result of an armed attack by relatives of the Justice and Development Party’s (AKP’s) Urfa deputy, İbrahim Halil Yıldız. The attack took place in the Suruç district of Urfa on 14 June 2018, just before the local […]Read More
Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) former co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş, imprisoned in Edirne Prison in Turkey, has spoken to the Financial Times (FT) about the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).Read More
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has just announced its ruling regarding the application it received from journalist and writer-publisher Ragıp Zarakolu, regarding a lawsuit that had been filed against him in Turkey accusing him of “being a member of an organization”. In its decision, ECHR ruled that Articles 5 and 10 of the […]Read More
Fifty photographers from all around the world collaborated with fifty prisoners in Turkey to create an exhibition called “Voice of Freedom”.Read More
Translated from Yeni Yaşam Child labour in Turkey continues to be both an international and domestic concern in the country. Despite efforts to establish policies to eradicate child labour and protect the interests of children, child labour problems persist.Read More
The funeral of Kurdish construction worker Özkan Tokay, who has lost his life due to a gun assault in Afyon, took place yesterday in the Erciş district of the city of Van (Wan) in Turkey.Read More
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