Torture cases have increased in the cities of the region in recent years. Authorities are whitewashing torture, acquitting the perpetrators, which are law enforcement officers. Yakup Güven, a member of the IHD Combating Torture and Ill-Treatment Commission, said the governors were protecting the perpetrators and marginalizing citizens.
2 little sisters disappeared in Çayırdere Village of Malazgirt district. A large-scale search was launched for sisters.
The bank has held its one-week repo rate unchanged at 8.25 percent, keeping it steady for the second straight month.
Photographs from Bursa in western Turkey show a new case of police violence. Children were kicked, beaten and threatened with firearms by police officers while lying on the ground.
A man murdered the woman he married in Büyükçekmece, Istanbul.
HDP Diyarbakır Provincial Organization Press Consultant Vedat Dağ was detained at the Diyarbakır Political Branch, where he was summoned for a deposition.
Khales Arsan, a smuggler who crossed the border from the city of Maku in Iran to Turkey, turned up in the police station. Telling that he was tortured in the police station, Arsan said: "A commander and 6 soldiers beat us with sticks, hammers and iron bars."
Attorneys of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office to meet with his clients.
The beating of peddler Serdar Turgut who sells meatballs for a living reflected to the cameras. A group of police and neighborhood watchmen have beaten Turgut in Hacıahmet Park in Beyoğlu, İstanbul around 21.30 last night. The surveilence camera of a supermarket shows that a police trying to lay Turgut on the ground while another kicked his face over and over again. The police officer who kicked Turgut, later grabbed Turgut's hair and started punching him in the face.
T.E living in Van was first taken into custody on charges of "supplying medical supplies to the organization" because of the 120 baby food he received with a prescription for his niece, and the investigation against him was closed before turning into a lawsuit. T.E. 4 years later he learned that he was dismissed from the civil service with a law decree for the same reason. It turned out that T.E was accused of 'aiding and abetting an illegal organization knowingly and willingly.'
Found dead in a forest area in Muğla five days after she was reported missing, university student Pınar Gültekin has been laid to rest in Bitlis province.
Taken into custody twice after being removed from office by the Interior Ministry, HDP’s dismissed Batman Provincial Co-Mayor Mehmet Demir has been arrested on charge of “being a member of a terrorist organization.”
Speacialized Sergaent Musa O who was released from custody, being accused of raping İ.E, causing her to commit suicide, stated that he was intoxicated at the time.
Gökova Akyaka Women's Platform stated that they will not allow Cemal Metin Avcı who murdered Pınar Gültekin to be acquitted and said: "We will never allow him to be granted good conduct abatement."
Attorney Mehtap Sert, calling the government to abandon smearing the İstanbul Convention and the Violence Law No. 6284, stated that the attempts to grant amnesty to these people is a threat to all childen.