The death threats received by President Nikos Christodoulides may be linked to the trial of Turkish-Jewish land developer Simon Aykut, 74, who was arrested in early June and is accused of the ...

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Turkish rescue workers have ended their search for survivors in Syria's notorious Saydnaya prison, their leader said Tuesday, after finding no detainees languishing in any hidden cells. Located ...

Fifteen inmates died and two paramilitary forces were killed Tuesday in a crackdown on 20 Turkish jails to end a two-month hunger strike over a controversial prison reform, Turkey's justice ...

The Human Rights Association in Turkey announced that three female prisoners had been tortured in Patnos Prison in Agri, and despite some complaints, no investigation has been initiated.

was found hanged in his cell in Silivri prison, west of Istanbul, on Sunday. He allegedly confessed during interrogation that he and the other suspect had spied on Arab dissidents. Turkish ...

In a message sent back with his visitors, two lawmakers from the pro-Kurd opposition DEM party, Ocalan -- the man who embodies the decades-long Kurdish rebellion against the Turkish government ...

He has since been held in an isolation cell on Imrali island ... His mother tongue is Turkish. He became a left-wing activist while studying politics at university in Ankara, and did his first stint ...