Category: Human Rights

A report recently released by a Brussels-based human rights monitor has pointed to the political motivation behind a mass detention campaign that has systematically targeted real and alleged members of the faith-based Gülen movement in ...

Cases of human rights violations in Turkey in March included 182 deaths and 371 incidents of torture and maltreatment, with 233 of them taking place in prisons, a report drafted by Sezgin Tanrıkulu, a lawmaker ...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) will on Tuesday announce its judgment oi the case of jailed author and journalist Ahmet Altan, four years after his application to the rights court. Altan, born on ...

The İzmir 2nd High Criminal Court on Friday handed down a jail sentence of 17 years, four months to 82-year-old businessman and philanthropist Yusuf Bekmezci, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. Bekmezci suffers from Alzheimer’s ...

Photo Credit: Evrensel A total of six women’s rights activists, who were among 26 that were detained in a police raid on the Rosa Women’s Association in southeastern Diyarbakır province on April 5, have been ...

English PEN, one of the world’s oldest human rights organizations that champions the freedom to write and the freedom to read, has launched a campaign to send Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtaş, who has been in ...

Gülistan Kılıç Koçyiğit, a deputy from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has submitted a parliamentary question about Turkish authorities’ decision to deport four Iranian asylum seekers for participating in a demonstration against Turkey’s withdrawal from ...

Turkey had the highest incarceration rate of the 47 Council of Europe (CoE) countries as of January 2020, with 357 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants, while the overall European imprisonment rate fell slightly, according to CoE’s ...