Teen suicide highlights torture in Turkey's juvenile detention centers - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Amberin Zaman

Amberin Zaman

Mar 4, 2021

Istanbul's courthouse is surrounded by police fences during the trial of Erol Onderoglu, the representative of Reporters Without Borders, on July 17, 2019. - Erol Onderoglu, the representative of Reporters Without Borders (RWB) in Turkey, and two other Turkish journalists are prosecuted for supporting pro-Kurdish newspaper "Ozgur Gundem". They risk up to 14,5 years in prison. (Photo by Ozan KOSE / AFP) (Photo by OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images) — Istanbul's courthouse is surrounded by police fences during the trial of Erol Onderoglu, the representative of Reporters Without Borders, on July 17, 2019. — OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images

Turkish gendarmes work outside the Silivri prison complex near Istanbul, Turkey, August 5, 2016. Picture taken August 5, 2016. REUTERS/Osman Orsal - S1AETVXXECAB

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Torture on the rise in Erdogan’s Turkey

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Turkish soldiers stand next to a destroyed building in Hatay.

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ANKARA, TURKEY - JUNE 20 : General view of the prison complex in Sincan during the final hearing of 224 July 15 coup plotters in General Staff case, including members of so-called Peace at Home Council on June 20, 2019. FETO and its U.S.-based leader Fetullah Gulen orchestrated the defeated coup of July 15, 2016, which left 251 people martyred and nearly 2,200 injured.

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Families, rights groups demand answers about two more vanished Turks

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