Category: Human Rights
Image credit: Axios/Aïda Amer. Axios has obtained a Chinese government request sent to the Turkish government for a Uighur man who fled Xinjiang amid worsening repression. Why it matters: Uighurs living outside China have long suspected that Beijing ...
A man has been detained in Turkey for hanging a towel emblazoned with the UK’s union jack on his balcony. Locals in the central Kayseri province reported the man to police on Tuesday after the ...
Turkish authorities on Friday detained four more elected mayors from Turkey’s mainly Kurdish populated east and southeast regions, as the government pressed ahead with its crackdown on a pro-Kurdish party it accuses of links to ...
Turkey’s transfer of Syrian families to Tell Abyad from Afrin has reignited worries of demographic engineering in northern Syria. Turkey has transferred hundreds of people to the northeastern Syrian town of Tell Abyad from ...
Zekiye Ataç and her son Ahmet Burhan. Ahmet Burhan Ataç, an 8-year-old cancer patient, succumbed to his illness on Thursday after a travel ban on his mother prevented him from receiving treatment in Germany for ...
İbrahim Gökçek after being released from prison Another member of a popular, left-wing folk music group that is banned in Turkey has died after he ended a hunger strike in protest of the government’s crackdown ...
Istanbul, April 30, 2020 – Turkish authorities should drop the charges against journalist Fatih Portakal and allow him to work freely, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the state ...
Freed American pastor Andrew Brunson (L) prays for US President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, DC, October 13, 2018. – Brunson, held for two years in Turkey, returned to the US earlier ...
A new report from Human Rights Watch on forcible disappearances in Turkey called for an “effective investigation into credible testimony” from one of the most recent men to go missing for months. The New York-based Human ...
SUMMARY Turkey now controls a long stretch of Syrian territory along its southern border that hosts nearly four million people, most of them Sunni Arabs. The challenges for Turkey there include a difficult balancing act ...