Category: Human Rights
The Australia-based Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) released its Global Peace Index 2019 yesterday (June 12). The thirteenth edition of the Global Peace Index has ranked 163 states and territories according to their level ...
TUR 002 / 0619 / OBS 047Arbitrary arrest / Release/Judicial harassmentTurkeyJune 6, 2019The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of FIDH and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your intervention ...
84-year-old Turkish singer Alpay. Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into Turkish singer Alpay after he at a concert commemorated a 13-year-old boy who was killed by the police during the Gezi Park protests of ...
Over 13 million Turkish citizens, roughly 15 percent of the entire population, were the subjects of prosecution in 2018, amounting to an increase of 5 million cases since 2011, Milli Gazete reported on Monday. According ...
A leading Turkish novelist Elif Shafak on Saturday urged the international community to show support for the country’s authors, journalists and academics, and warned that all traces of democracy were being crushed there. “Turkey today ...
Along with the dollar bill, Turkish authorities claimed that Golge’s U.S. passport and his college degree at a Gulen-affiliated university in Turkey proved that he was a Gulenist, despite attending the school on a government ...
Photo by Ye Jinghan (Unsplash) A woman who was five months into her pregnancy when she was arrested due to her alleged links to the Gülen movement was subjected to a strip search and torture, ...
David Greene talks to a Turkish military officer about why he was forced to flee to the United States shortly after the alleged coup attempt in Turkey in 2016. DAVID GREENE, HOST: I was in ...
A report released by the Foundation for Society and Legal Studies (TOHAV) has claimed that some of the people who were detained last week in Halfeti in southeastern Şanlıurfa province are being exposed to further ...
The commission criticised the move to annul the mayoral vote in Istanbul in March won by the opposition after 25 years of rule by Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party and its Islamist predecessors. ...
