Category: Human Rights
Turkish authorities detained the mayors of five municipalities in Kurdish-majority areas on Monday as part of a widening government crackdown on the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), the party’s co-leader said, according to Reuters. Mithat ...
Ahmet Burhan Ataç, a stage four cancer patient, was on Friday able to see his jailed father for five hours after an intense social media campaign calling on the Turkish government to release the father ...
“Turkey’s frantic attempts to control the narrative about its intelligence activities by detaining and harassing journalists violate the public’s right to be informed and must stop… Accusing journalists of revealing information that has already been ...
Elif Tuğral, who was arrested in October while pregnant over alleged ties to the Gülen movement, on Friday gave birth at a Turkish hospital where gendarmes stood guard at her room, the tr724 news website ...
ISTANBUL – The body overseeing Turkish judges and prosecutors has launched an investigation into three judges who acquitted philanthropist businessman Osman Kavala and eight other activists of terrorism charges, Turkey’s state media reported on Wednesday. ...
(Reuters) – Turkey’s judiciary drew international criticism on Wednesday after a prominent businessman was re-arrested over charges related to a failed 2016 military coup, hours after being acquitted over his alleged role in landmark protests ...
After the attempted coup in Turkey in 2016, 134,000 people lost their jobs. Most of them are still unemployed and have to fight for health services and pensions. Many suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. By ...
Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 176 officers of the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) including six F-16 pilots and four gendarmerie district commanders over alleged links to the Gülen movement, accused by the Turkish ...
Hakan Sukur is Turkey’s greatest ever goalscorer and once one of Europe’s most prolific strikers. A legend. So, how did he end up driving taxis and selling books for a living in the US, in ...
Kurdish journalist Seda Taskin JOURNALISM in Turkey is “a dangerous profession,” with hundreds of media workers locked up by an authoritarian government which brands them terrorists, according to press freedom groups in the country. Friday, ...
