Category: Human Rights
PHOTO: Nomad Capitalist website. Turkey’s Justice Ministry is working on a regulation to reinstate the passports of 150,000 public servants whose travel documents were cancelled after they were purged from their posts in the aftermath ...
Some 150,000 public sector workers have lost their jobs since the attempted putsch which the government says was orchestrated by US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen, leading to a mass crackdown on alleged supporters (AFP Photo/OZAN KOSE) ...
Photo by Ye Jinghan (Unsplash) A 15-year-old Kurdish girl who was taken into police custody along with other family members was released 12 days later, the gazetekarınca news website reported on Wednesday. Dilan Ablay, a ...
Saturday Mothers, a group of activists and relatives seeking the whereabouts of loved ones who disappeared while in police custody in the 1990s, held a protest on Saturday with the wives of abductees who were ...
Syrian refugee children living outside of camps in Sanliurfa (Urfa), Turkey, recieve aid from the Turkish Red Crescent (Turk Kizilay). File photo: AA An attack on a Syrian neighborhood in Istanbul last week shed light ...
By The Associated Press ISTANBUL – Journalism organizations in Turkey have criticized a report by a pro-government think-tank that they say catalogues journalists working for international news media in a way that amounts to “blacklisting.” The ...
Mayor Evren Demir Two Kurdish co-mayors of Ağrı in eastern Turkey were subjected to excessive police force, the Diken news website reported on Wednesday. Betül Yaşar, who was elected mayor of Ağrı from the Peoples’ ...
A purged civil servant has discovered an entry on the web page of Turkey’s Constitutional Court that points to a possible predisposition against the cases of individuals dismissed from public service due to alleged links ...
Human Rights Defenders (HRD) filed a criminal complaint with the Office of the German Federal Public Prosecutor (GBA) against 248 individuals including government agents over allegations of torture, the TR724 news website reported on Thursday. ...
Hundreds of children are locked up in Turkish prisons alongside their mothers. Authorities have said they now want to create more family-friendly living arrangements, but human rights activists doubt this will help. Huseyin Sahnaz remembers ...
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