Category: Human Rights
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Six staff of Turkey’s opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper were sent to jail on Thursday to serve out the remainder of their sentences from a trial on terrorism charges, two of their lawyers said. ...
Omer Ozyurt power-washing a car on his dealership’s lot. He says that tax refund season has been particularly good for business. When I catch up with Akif Guney it’s about 9:30 in the morning ...
A Turkish woman who protested the sexual assault of a 5-year-old in İstanbul was briefly detained, the Etkin news agency reported on Wednesday. Yasemin Babat Kayan was taken into custody while holding a sit-in in ...
Turkish prosecutors on Monday issued detention warrants for 120 people, including members of the military, as part of a post-coup crackdown targeting followers of the faith-based Gülen movement. The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s office ordered ...
(International Christian Concern) – The Eurasia Review has published an analysis of Turkey’s treatment of religious minorities under the tenure of Erdogan’s presidency. The report highlights the contradictory policies of his government, and how this ...
Armenian refugees in 1918.CreditCreditLibrary of Congress THE THIRTY-YEAR GENOCIDE Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924 By Benny Morris and Dror Ze’evi Using the word “genocide” to describe an episode of mass killing has ...
Demonstrators gather on the spot where Turkish Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was killed 12 years previously, in Istanbul, Turkey, Jan. 19, 2019. Placards read: “For Hrant, for justice!” and “We are all Hrant. We are all Armenians!”Credit: Umit Bektas/Reuters ...
Saddam chose the name “Anfal” for a genocidal attack on Iraqi Kurds that he launched in 1986 and continued until 1989. The name for this massacre, which reached its peak in 1988, was taken from a ...
Turkey’s Ministry of Family and Social Policies took away the adopted child of a family, on the grounds that the father was among civil servants sacked under two-year emergency rule that followed a failed coup ...
For four months, Turkish author Asli Erdogan sat behind bars in an Istanbul prison. Now living in exile, she spoke to DW about the political situation in her homeland; and the long-term trauma inflicted by ...