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April 20, 2018

Torture, forced disappearance, arbitrary detention in Turkey, says U.S.

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Europe Middle East Torture Turkey

“Alleged torture of detainees in official custody, allegations of forced disappearance; arbitrary arrest and detention under the state of emergency of tens of thousands” are among the most significant human rights abuses of Turkey, the U.S. State Department noted in its annual Human Rights Practice…

April 4, 2018

Türkiye: fading away

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Europe Turkey

“I am about to forget my native language” Havre comes from Iran. He has been detained in Türkiye for six years. His story is one of deprivation. Deprivation of his liberty, his family, his mother tongue.

March 29, 2018

Türkiye: prison diseases

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Europe Turkey

“*We feel as though we were buried alive here. We struggle to survive”.* Serhat is incarcerated in a prison F, in Izmir. This is the letter he wrote.

March 20, 2018

Turkey: more than 50,000 inmates employed in prison workshops across the country

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Europe Middle East Turkey

The number of workshops employing inmates in jails across Turkey has reached to 1,700, with more than 50,000 prisoners working under the program overseen by the Ministry of Justice.

February 14, 2018

Deniz Yücel has spent a year in Erdogan's prisons in Turkey

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Europe Middle East Turkey

On Valentine’s Day 2017, a journalist from Germany’s Die Welt reported to Turkish police for questioning. Things unraveled quickly: Deniz Yücel has been imprisoned ever since.

February 13, 2018

Diren, détenue trans en Turquie, en grève de la faim

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Europe LGBTQI Turkey

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February 5, 2018

Babies behind bars: children struggle in Turkish prisons

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Turkey

Turkish police arrested Hatice Kaman 19 days after she gave birth to her son, Akif, on charges of overseeing a matchmaking service for followers of Fethullah Gülen, the reclusive U.S.-based Turkish preacher blamed for masterminding the failed coup of July, 2016.

December 26, 2017

Turquie : quatre jeunes Roubaisiens demandent leur transfert en France

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Europe Turkey

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October 8, 2017

Turquie : jusqu’à 15 ans de prison requis pour 11 militants des droits de l’homme

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Europe Turkey

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September 16, 2017

Turquie : les prisons se sont modernisées, mais l'islamisation domine

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Europe Religion Turkey

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September 6, 2017

Crackdown: Prison conditions worsen in post-coup Turkey

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Europe Middle East Material conditions Turkey

Turkey has been packing its jails with political offenders since a failed coup nearly 14 months ago, and prisoners’ families, lawyers, and activists have told IRIN of an increase in overcrowding, poor medical care, solitary confinement, and mistreatment.

August 4, 2017

La Turquie, "plus grande prison au monde pour les journalistes"

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Europe Turkey

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July 15, 2017

Turquie : "Le Monde" et Reporters sans frontières lancent un appel en faveur de la liberté de la presse

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Europe Turkey

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July 14, 2017

Turkey: inside Erdogan’s prisons

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Europe Middle East Turkey

I have been a member of Turkish Parliament representing Istanbul for the opposition Republican People’s Party for the past six years. It has forced me to become a specialist in the Turkish prison system as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (A.K.P.) government has increa…

June 29, 2017

Turquie, zone carcérale

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Europe Turkey

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June 15, 2017

Turkey: jail sentence to UN judge Aydin Sefa Akay

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Europe Middle East Turkey

A Turkish court has sentenced top UN judge Aydin Sefa Akay to more than seven years in jail over alleged ties to a group blamed for a failed coup attempt. The UN war crimes court in The Hague says the move is illegal.

May 20, 2017

Turkey: nine percent overcapacity in prisons forces inmates to sleep in shifts

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Europe Middle East Turkey

“There are currently 221,607 inmates in prisons. Prison capacity is 203,000, making them 9 percent over capacity”

April 13, 2017

Turkey: le journaliste allemand Deniz Yücel se marie en prison

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Europe Middle East Turkey

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April 3, 2017

What’s going on in Turkey’s prisons?

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Europe Middle East Turkey

Myriad allegations of rights violations in Turkish prisons have marked the aftermath of last year’s coup attempt as thousands of suspected putschists, political dissidents and journalists landed behind bars. In December, a senior UN official said torture seemed to have been “widespread” in the days…

April 3, 2017

Turquie : Les détenus kurdes dénoncent leurs conditions d’incarcération

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Europe Protest Turkey

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March 23, 2017

The terror and torment of Turkey's jailed journalists

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Europe Turkey

Prisoners tell of solitary confinement and maltreatment after being caught up in ‘Kafkaesque’ media purge.

February 23, 2017

Some inmates to get better conditions after overpopulation in Turkish jails due to Gülen case arrests

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Material conditions Overcrowding Turkey

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February 17, 2017

Pinar Selek : "La Turquie passe par un tunnel d'horreur"

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Europe Turkey

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January 26, 2017

Over 201,000 inmates in Turkish prisons

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Turkey

There are over 201,000 convicts and people under arrest in Turkish prisons, according to figures released by the Justice Ministry.