The Soldiers' Rights group submitted 22 petitions related to rights violations experienced at the military to the Parliamentary Human Rights Commission. The group requested to establish ...»

The indictment of the 1980 military coup claimed that "the ground for the coup was prepared by creating chaos in the country". Prosecutor Çetin pointed to ...»

Because of new information on deaths under torture that increased after the military coup of 12 September 1980 the independent communication network BIA (Bianet) published reports ...»

Turkey has to pay € 16,000 in compensation to Faruk Temel, member of the People's Democracy Party, by reason of a breach of the right to ...»

According to cables from 2006 published on WikiLeaks, Turkey issued permission to the USA to use the Incirlik Military Base for illegal interrogations of alleged "terror ...»

Police violently dispersed trade union confederation DISK member who urged a restored historical building Otag-i Humayun, notorious for nesting torturers under military rule, turned into a ...»

The ECHR called on Turkey for the implementation of the Istanbul Protocol and the principles as defined by the CPT. The court sentenced Turkey to a ...»

Riot Forces Branch Sergeant Damgacı, one of the police officers indicted with alleged "torture", stated that he actually wanted to help the demonstrator who sued him. ...»

The Facts Research and Justice Commission decided to take the torturers of the Diyarbakır prison from the time around the 1980 military coup to court. Kurdish ...»

Colonel Özmen, tried for alleged torture of conscientious objector Aydemir, said in his defence: "I am a human being, I may have cursed. I held him ...»

In demonstrations organized in Istanbul, Diyarbakır and Ankara, rights organizations drew attention to ongoing torture in Turkey. They emphasized that torture cases have increased since 2005. ...»

Conscientious objector Aydemir was relaeased upon an "incapability report". His lawyer criticized that the legislation lacks provisions on conscientious objection. Turkey is one of three countries ...»

According to a research on "Othering and Discrimination in Turkey", 27 out of 100 people would approve of torture "in certain situations". Turkish Human Rights Foundation ...»

According to the annual report of the Turkish rights organizations İHD and TİHV for 2009, 36 people died in prison, 6 in detention, 61 were shot ...»

Primary school teacher F.N. was suspended after she had kicked a six-year-old student in class. The teachers' union demands a thorough investigation of the general situation ...»

Newly assigned prosecutor Calık in the torture case of Engin Çeber, who died from torture in detention, requested a life sentence for only two of a ...»

The ECHR has penalised Turkey with over 50,000 Euros in several cases of torture and violation of the freedom of expression. ...»

Rights activists have warned that there has been a rise in cases of maltreatment and torture since 2005. Perpetrators mostly remain unpunished. ...»

Lawyers for the Çeber family have accused the judges of leniency towards the accused police officers. The judges have withdrawn, and it is yet to be ...»

The court considering the death of activist Çeber has been given a letter written by the deceased and smuggled out of prison by a cell mate. ...»

The Turkish Medical Association will first train a team of 250 trainers; they in turn will educate 5,500 lawyers and doctors who are not experts in ...»

Human Rights Association releases its annual report on rights violations in prisons. IHD received 3 519 applications regarding rights violations such as arbitrary ban on books ...»

The court acquitted program producer Barış Pehlivan and torture witness Nurettin Yılmaz for the torture interview aired in CNN Türk. ...»

In Turkey, not the torture but the testimonies of those tortured face trial. Pehlivan of CNN Türk faces prosecution for airing an interview with a torture ...»

In the Ceber torture case, the prosecutor released the 35 police officers, suspect in the case, after taking their statements. Ceber's lawyer thinks that at least ...»

İdil Prosecutor of Şırnak province in the eastern Turkey receives a tip about eight people getting a beating and then catches heavily beaten up people in ...»

The investigation by the inspectors of the Ministry of Interior determines Ceber and his friends were not tortured at the Istinye Police Station. Their lawyer states ...»

Talking at the press release held by People’s Law Bureau, Engin Ceber’s father says apology is not enough. Activist Ceber had died in the hospital after ...»

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) sentences Turkey to pay total of 72 thousand for the eight applications, including the one submitted by journalist Eren. ...»

The court released Gün, Karakaya and Baykal, who were taken into custody together with Engin Ceber, activist who died of bad treatment in prison a few ...»