Turkish lieutenant colonel recants testimony, says drugged and tortured
Lt. Col. Levent Türkkan, aide-de-camp of Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar, on Monday recanted his previous testimony during a hearing at the...
Torture inflicted by founding member of new Turkish party exposed
New evidence of severe torture carried out by Ali Türkşen, a former military officer who had been convicted in the Ergenekon case and who is...
General first tortured as putschist, then released for resisting coup
Air Forces Chief of Personnel Maj. Gen. Cevat Yazgılı was first jailed and tortured for allegedly supporting a botched coup attempt on July 15,...
Supreme court member dies in hospital after release from prison
Supreme Court member Mustafa Erdoğan died in the intensive care unit of a hospital on Tuesday morning days after being released from prison.
The medical...
Davut Türkel, a 59-years-old detainee, dies under police custody in Turkey
59-years-old Davut Türkel was added to the list of those who suspiciously died under the custody of Turkish police in the aftermath of a...
Villagers tortured under custody in Kurdish province
Police and gendarmerie carried out a joint operation against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’s Party (PKK) in Sapatan where one special operation unit police was...