Category: Human Rights
Former top-ranking officers in the Turkish army have been jailed for life in a mass trial of 497 defendants accused over the failed July 2016 coup. Among those convicted were two men who stormed the ...
Turkish Twitter users conducted a hashtag campaign yesterday calling on authorities to release Sabriye Dağdeviren, the mother of 11-year-old leukemia patient Hakan, who is battling the cancer alone in a hospital. Hakan was diagnosed with ...
04/07/2021, 17.00TURKEY Send to a friend Assyrian monk gets two years in a Turkish prison for giving a piece of bread Father Aho will serve 25 months in prison for providing “help to a terrorist ...
As Recep Tayyip Erdogan continues his crackdown on dissent, increasing numbers of Turkish graduates and young professionals are seeking new lives and better prospects abroad. Germany is their No.1 destination. Recently in Turkey, the concept of “beyin ...
Turkey, as usual, gets all wound up in the month of April, as Armenians around the globe commemorate Turkey’s genocide of up to 1.5 million of its Armenian citizens starting in 1915 and ask the ...
The Iranian regime’s suppression, torture and execution of political prisoners and those who protest against the theocratic establishment have reached an unprecedented level. According to a recent Human Rights Watch report, the Iranian regime is ...
The first hearing in the trial of Turkish journalist Melis Alphan, who faces a prison sentence of up to seven-and-a-half years on terror charges for posting a Nevruz photo in 2015, was held at a ...
The families of trainee pilots sentenced to life in prison broke their silence to protest the men’s innocence. The pilots are among more than 600 trainees and conscripts swept up in prosecutions. ISTANBUL — Their ...
A police officer whose alleged torture and maltreatment of detainees was exposed by Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a former lawmaker who was expelled from parliament and jailed over the weekend, was among the police officers who ...
A leading Uighur activist in Turkey has condemned China’s “humiliating” interference in his host country’s domestic affairs as a spat continues to roil between the two countries over comments made on the minority’s persecution. On ...