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Amnesty International campaigns for detainees in southeast Turkey over torture claims
Amnesty International’s Turkey branch has launched a campaign calling for “independent medical examination” for detainees in the country’s southeastern Halfeti…
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Court hears how police tortured detainees
Ten people detained in Turkey’s southeastern Sanliurfa following a counter-terrorism operation in the province testified in court on Thursday that…
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Justice minister says lifting visitation ban for PKK leader unrelated to İstanbul election re-run
Turkish Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül on Friday said lifting the visitation ban on the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’…
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Four defendants given life sentences in Beşiktaş terrorist attack trial
A high criminal court in İstanbul on Friday handed down 47 consecutive aggravated life sentences and a prison sentence of…
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Hungary sentences 2 Kurds for financing PKK terrorist group
A court in Szeged, southern Hungary, on Thursday sentenced a Kurdish couple to two years in prison and ordered them…
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Turkish minister: Ban preventing Öcalan from meeting with lawyers lifted
Turkish Justice Minister Abdullah Gül announced on Thursday that a ban preventing the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’…
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France will reopen case on murder of 3 PKK militants in 2013: report
French prosecutors have reopened an investigation into the 2013 murder of three Kurdish militants, a judicial source and lawyer for…
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3 mothers of hunger strikers recorded by police as ‘ignorant’ instead of ‘illiterate’
Three mothers of inmates on a hunger strike in Turkish prisons have been referred to as “ignorant” in police records…
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Berlin vows to take more action against PKK supporters in Germany
Germany on Tuesday pledged to take stronger action against the activities of the illegal Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) as its…
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Turkish court ends jailing of Ayse Celik on terror propaganda charges
Turkey’s top court ruled on Thursday that the imprisonment of a female teacher on allegations of terror propaganda was a…
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