Category: Human Rights
The parents of a young woman who was killed in an attack on the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) office in western Turkey in June have filed a criminal complaint against the local police, whom ...
The panel of judges of the Turkey Tribunal, a civil society-led, symbolic international tribunal established to adjudicate recent human rights violations in Turkey, on Tuesday heard the testimony of two journalists who were forced to ...
Public prosecutors initiated 1.576 million investigations on allegations of terrorismbetween 2016 and 2020, concluding 208,833 of them, the Stockholm Center for Freedom reported, citing the BirGün daily. Speaking to Zilan Akay of BirGün, lawyer Bilgin ...
A yearly report by Freedom House on global Internet freedom reveals that Internet freedom continued to decline for a third year in a row in Turkey and that hundreds of websites were blocked during the ...
A Turkish prosecutor has unilaterally extended the prison sentence of political prisoner Resul Baltacı without the benefit of a court proceeding, eliminating his chances for parole, the Duvar news website reported. Baltacı was investigated for ...
PEN Melbourne, one of the 147 PEN International centers worldwide whose members defend freedom of expression, has made imprisoned journalist Nedim Türfent an honorary member, Mezopotamya news agency reported on Sept. 22. Türfent was imprisoned in 2016 ...
Source: MA Emine Şenyaşar and her son Ferit Şenyaşar, who have been protesting in front of the Şanlıurfa Courthouse in southeastern Turkey to seek justice for three members of their family who were killed by ...
A prosecutor has sought up to six years, four months in prison for mafia boss Sedat Peker on charges of insulting and slandering Erkam Yıldırım, the son of senior ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) ...
The judges of the Turkey Tribunal, a civil society-led, symbolic international tribunal established to adjudicate recent human rights violations in Turkey, on Tuesday heard rapporteur Philippe Leruth present a report on press freedom that claimed ...
Bekir Güven, who suffers from the neurodegenerative Huntington’s Disease, was sent to prison yesterday after an appeals court upheld a 22-month prison sentence for a tweet he posted in 2015, the Stockholm Center for Freedom ...
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