Hot Topic Turkish appeals court upholds sentence against pro-Kurdish MP Turkey's top appeals court approved a jail sentence against a lawmaker from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic…
Hot Topic Turkish court approves new indictment against philanthropist Kavala –… A Turkish court has approved an indictment accusing philanthropist Osman Kavala of helping organize an attempted…
Hot Topic Turkey reports first corona cases and deaths in prisons Turkey has announced the first coronavirus cases and related deaths in its 286,000 prison population.
Hot Topic Ankara plans prisoner release, excluding those jailed on post-coup… Turkey's parliament discussed a prisoner release law on Tuesday which aims to ease overcrowding in jails and…
Hot Topic Riot erupts in Batman jail as coronavirus release excludes political… Inmates in southeastern Batman province of Turkey set fire to the prison on Saturday reportedly to protest a…
Hot Topic Jailed opposition leader’s wife calls for inmates’ release over… A jailed opposition party leader's wife has called for the immediate release for inmates in Turkey in light of the…
Hot Topic 161 Turkish media workers welcome 2020 behind bars A total of 161 journalists entered the new year in Turkey’s prisons, an online platform reporting on imprisoned…
Hot Topic Ex-prisoner will not forgive notorious former security chief for torture… A Turkish man who was imprisoned for five years in the aftermath of Turkey’s 1980 military coup says he will never…
Hot Topic Demirtas blames Justice Ministry for delay in his hospitalization: CHP MP Turkey’s Justice Ministry’s alleged negligence is said to have caused a delay in the transfer to the hospital of…
Hot Topic Demirtas hospitalized days after falling ill in prison: lawyer Selahattin Demirtas, the jailed former leader of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP),…