Rights lawyer Kozağaçlı re-arrested a day after being freed
Human rights lawyer Selçuk Kozağaçlı was re-arrested on Thursday in İstanbul, only a day after his release from Silivri Prison, ...
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Turkey’s prominent human rights lawyer Selçuk Kozağaçlı released after seven years
Turkey's prominent human rights lawyer Selçuk Kozağaçlı was released from İstanbul’s Marmara Prison on Wednesday evening after spending more than ...
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Calls grow for release of seriously ill, severely disabled prisoners in Turkey
Human rights advocates and families are urging the Turkish authorities to release seriously ill and severely disabled prisoners, highlighting the ...
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Families of the disappeared demand justice and acknowledgement in Turkey
Families of Turkey's disappeared gathered with human rights defenders in several cities on 12 April to demand accountability for those ...
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Öcalan urges democratic organisation, warns of security risks for Syrian Kurds
Following his family visit to imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, Peoples' Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party MP Ömer Öcalan spoke ...
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Urgent plea of a Kurdish mother to halt execution of son in Iran sparks outcry
Hamid Huseynnejad Heyderanlu, a Kurdish man from the Çaldıran (Ebex) district of Van (Wan), Turkey, is currently facing a death ...
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Sharifeh Mohammadi speaks out from prison after second death sentence
Iranian activist Sharifeh Mohammadi, sentenced to death for a second time in February, has issued a letter from prison describing ...
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Rare family visit permitted to İmralı Prison inmates after many months isolation
Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan and three other inmates held in Turkey's high-security İmralı F-Type Prison were permitted family visits ...
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Sabri Ok: Kurdish peace process cannot progress without Öcalan’s freedom
Sabri Ok, a senior member of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), has criticised the Turkish government for failing to respond ...
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Why the Kurdish conference made me cry
Fréderike Geerdink It was during the speech of DEM Party co-chair Tuncer Bakırhan that I suddenly felt myself becoming emotional. ...
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