Lider Polat was tortured for five hours after having his vehicle hijacked in Istanbul by attackers posing as police officers.Read More
Construction workers from Van (Wan) have been assaulted with a gun in the Dinar district of Afyon in Turkey.Read More
Ayten Akman, the sister of Didem Akman, who has been on a death fast for 207 days requesting a transfer to Sincan Women’s Prison, stated that her sister’s health is at a critical stage. She appealed to the Ministry of Justice to meet her request.Read More
The Turkish government appointed trustee to Mardin Municipality has suspended Ismail Taş because he had ‘shared’ a song in the Kurdish language six years ago.Read More
The second hearing of a Turkish trial of journalists took place at İstanbul’s 34th High Criminal Court on 9 September. The journalists were accused of reporting the killing of a Turkish intelligence officer in Libya.Read More
Thirty-seven people, including thirty-three intellectuals and writers, were killed in a hotel fire started by a mob in the central Anatolian province of Sivas on 2 July 1993. They had come to attend the Alevis’ Pir Sultan Abdal Festival.Read More
A new indictment has been framed by the Public Prosecutor of İstanbul for Kurdish musician Ferhat Tunç due to his social media posts and the cover of his latest music album, “Anthems and Lamentations”.Read More
Eleven members of the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) were detained yesterday in operations which form part of an investigation by the Istanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office. The investigation began in early September.Read More
Turkish Islamist cult group Uşşaki’s leader, Fatih Nurullah (Eyüp Fatih Şağban), was arrested on charges of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl in Akyazi district of Sakarya.Read More
The lawyer Sezai Akın announced that his client, Mehmet Sait Yardımcı, was tortured in custody. Yardımcı is being held by Urfa’s Anti-Terror Branch (TEM) in Turkey.Read More
