by TurkeyPurge | Jul 9, 2017 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses, Torture
A video that has recently emerged on social media purportedly shows a group of Turkish-speaking soldiers posing with beheaded people or allegedly outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants. Turkey Purge cannot authenticate the details regarding the newly...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 6, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Torture
Prisoners in two prisons in the southern Turkish province of Mersin have allegedly faced maltreatment, physical violence and torture as well as being threatened with death, according to a report in the Cumhuriyet daily on Thursday. The Human Rights Association (İHD)...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 29, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Torture
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...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 20, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Torture
Three people accused of attacking police headquarters and tortured under detention in the eastern Turkish province of Van turned out to be civilians who were collecting mushrooms on a mountainside, the Hürriyet daily reported on Monday. According to the report, they...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 7, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Torture
Bergül Varan, a Turkish woman who was briefly detained over terror charges said police tore out her hair with Ottomans military band, widely known as Mehter, playing in the background during detention. “They rooted out my hair and dance with Mehter march”...
by TurkeyPurge | May 24, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Torture
Lt. Col. Levent Turkkan, the former aide-de-camp of the Chief of General Staff Hulusi Akar said his testimony was taken under torture, during his first court hearing on Tuesday. “None of my statements are genuine. I was all destroyed. They drip-fed me. They x-rayed my...
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