Intellectuals protest against Minister Eker's plan of turning the Diyarbakır prison into a school. They started a campaign to convert the prison into a museum for human rights instead to remember the ...

One of the highest security prisons is Diyarbakir Prison, built in 1980 in Turkey. This prison became notorious after the 1980 coup and that’s what made it a part of the most dangerous prisons in the ...

Tayyip Temel, journalist, ended his hunger strike on its 68th day in Diyarbakir Prison, saying that the role of dialogue is essential for avoiding future tragedies. On Monday, representatives from ...

Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas has been jailed for nine years on what the European Court of Human Rights calls ...

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A Turkish court on Friday ordered the supervised release of a detained lawmaker from the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) who is seriously ill after her 11-week hunger strike. Thousands ...