Tag: Turkish Prisons

The Turkish Parliament must take immediate steps to establish a commission tasked with addressing the Kurdish issue through democratic means, ...

Mehmet Emin Çam, a 73-year-old prisoner held in Kurdish-majority southeastern Turkey, remains in a critical condition following a heart attack ...

Human rights advocates and families are urging the Turkish authorities to release seriously ill and severely disabled prisoners, highlighting the ...

Sezgin Tanrıkulu became the first main opposition member to denounce the 44-month isolation of jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan in ...

Zeki Bayhan, a political prisoner who has been incarcerated for 27 years in Turkey, has penned a powerful and deeply ...

The release of two political prisoners in Turkey has been delayed for the fourth time due to their refusal to ...

Meral Danış Beştaş, a Member of Parliament from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party representing Erzurum (Erzirom), visited ...

Kurdish political prisoners in Turkey have intensified protest action amid ongoing hunger strikes, now boycotting court appearances and refusing family ...

Turkey's treatment of the Kurdish issue has evolved from physical destruction in the 1990s to a more insidious form of ...

A Kurdish prisoner has died in suspicious circumstances in a Turkish prison. This is the second such incident following recent ...