by TurkeyPurge | Jun 6, 2018 | Human Rights Abuses, Human Tragedies, Torture
Family members of İbrahim Halil Özyavuz, a medical doctor who was jailed in May over alleged links to the Gülen movement, said that Özyavuz did not commit suicide as previously reported but rather died after he was subjected to heavy torture by police officers while...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 1, 2018 | Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown, Torture
Two villagers from Turkey’s Kurdish-majority Hakkari province have been tortured for hours by a group of soldiers while they were shepherding their sheep, according to media. Mezopotampya online news agency said Friday that Ramazan Tas and Nasır Taş, two shepherds...
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 | Apr 8, 2017 | Human Tragedies
Under arrest as part of the Turkish government’s post-coup crackdown, the arms of Muzaffer Bayram, a former prosecutor in Kütahya province, were broken in prison where he is being held in solitary confinement, according to Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Barış...