In an open letter to the President, Ministers of Interior and Justice and Turkey’s ambassadors to the UN and EU, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders has demanded the immediate and unconditional release of Dr. Gökalp.

“Though it is absolutely prohibited and considered a crime against humanity under the universal law, which Turkey is also a part of, torture has been the major human rights problem in the country in 2020 as well,” says a joint statement by the İHD and TİHV.

Elvan, 14, was shot in the head with a tear gas canister during the 2013 Gezi Park protests and lost his life following a 269-day coma.

Two people were found to be in intensive care two days after being detained by gendarmerie officials. While one has recovered, the other has lost his life.

The IRCT has stated that it believes the arrest and charges against Dr. Gökalp "are an attempt to silence him for conducting his professional and ethical duties."

From the Human Rights Association (İHD) report on prisons in Black Sea: “They need to stop referring patients to hospitals in stuffy and cold shuttles in winter and hot ones in summer and keeping them waiting in the shuttles in front of hospitals for hours…”

Arrested after criticizing the AKP government and President and AKP Chair Erdoğan in a street interview in Antalya, İsmail Demirbaş has been released.

A woman prisoner told bianet that she was tortured by gendarmerie officers after refusing to be searched for the third time when she was being taken to the court.

Yet another access block was imposed on the website of JinNews news agency by a court decision on December 4. JinNews now publishes its news on its new address "http://www.jinnews15.xyz/”.

The governor's office said the child was killed after soldiers "fired shots in the air."

The Council's Committee of Ministers has adopted an interim resolution about the imprisonment of the businessperson.

"We have lost Tahir as a result of a political assassination. This was neither the first nor the last political homicide," said lawyers.

Women prisoners announced that they started a hunger strike in protest of the rights violations in prisons and the "isolation" of PKK leader Öcalan.

Main opposition CHP Aydın MP Bülbül has indicated that police and gendarmerie forces intervened in at least 1,215 protest demonstrations in 2019 while they have intervened in 700 demonstrations and press statements over the last five months.

Mezopotamya Agency (MA) reporter Hakan Yalçın has been detained in a house raid in the capital city of Ankara.

Counter terrorism police have detained 19 people in İstanbul, including journalists, politicians and representatives of civil society organizations. While there are warrants against 25 people in total, Şişli Vice Mayor Yavuz is also among the detained.

Having a heart attack after being battered by six police officers in İzmir, Mehmet Şerif Coşkun has lost his life at the hospital where he was taken after the incident.

Şık had spent 14 months in prison in a "terrorism-related" case against Cumhuriyet newspaper.

Shortly after Mezopotamya Agency (MA) reporter Dindar Karataş was detained in a house raid in early morning hours today, the MA Bureau in Van has been raided by the police, computers and hard disks have been seized.

Mezopotamya Agency (MA) reporter Dindar Karataş has been detained in a house raid in İpekyolu district in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority eastern province of Van.