by TurkeyPurge | Jan 15, 2018 | Today in Crackdown, Torture
A Turkish man, jailed over alleged links to the Gulen movement, was reportedly tortured under custody while police threatened to rape his wife during the holy month of Ramadan. According to Odatv columnist Muyesser Yildiz on Sunday, the man reported to be hailin from...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 11, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Torture
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...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 8, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown, Torture
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...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 4, 2017 | Torture
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...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 1, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Torture
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...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 20, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown, Torture
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...
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