Category: Human Rights
High school student jailed for drawing mustache to Erdogan poster
8th June 2023
16-year-old Turkish high school student on Tuesday has been arrested and sent behind bars after drawing a mustache and writing offensive remarks on a campaign poster featuring President Tayyip Erdogan. Following reports of a defaced ...
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Turkey’s prison population hits all-time high, reaching over 341,000
26th May 2023
The prison population in Turkey has reached an all-time high, the latest statistics released by the Ministry of Justice showed on Friday, according to Turkey’s Birgun Newspaper. At the end of 2022, with the intensification ...
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In the early 2000s, the AKP emerged with a democratic, peaceful, and inclusive discourse. However, after 2009-2010, it started to deviate from the principles of law and democracy, resorting to illegitimate means such as corruption ...