Turkey’s prison population reaches historic high under Erdogan’s rule
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey’s prison population has reached an unprecedented level, hitting the highest figure in the country’s modern history, according ...
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UN human rights chief calls for freeing of political prisoners amid coronavirus pandemic
Nordic Monitor While the Turkish government has excluded political prisoners from a recently proposed amnesty bill, UN High Commissioner ...
Turkish gov’t refuses to release inmates despite detection of coronavirus in overcrowded prisons
Nordic Monitor President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Islamist government has rejected calls from human rights organizations to release inmates from ...
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