Category: Human Rights
People protest outside the headquarters of Bugun Newspaper and Kanalturk TV station in Istanbul during a rally against the Turkish government’s crackdown on media outlets. (AFP/File) They were handed jail terms of 2 years or ...
PHOTO: Amnesty (illustrative) Former public servants who were detained on Wednesday over membership in the faith-based Gülen movement were subjected to ill treatment and threatened with sexual abuse, according to an opposition deputy, the Euronews ...
Engin Erol, 41, a Turkish businessman who was jailed three years ago on allegations of membership in the faith-based Gülen movement, died on Thursday evening in a hospital from cancer, which was not treated properly ...
Turkish authorities on Friday detained a mayor from the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) due to suspected links to Kurdish militants, the latest in a crackdown on mayors from the party since elections this year, ...
Turkish cartoonist Nuri Kurtcebe has been indicted by a prosecutor for allegedly insulting public officials in a Facebook post in 2017, with the prosecution seeking a prison sentence of up to four years, the Independent’s ...
Arzum Onan (L) and Azra Akın In a rare move among Turkish celebrity figures, two famous models, Arzum Onan and Azra Akın, have raised their voices about the situation of children jailed with their mothers ...
Mehmet Ağar A high criminal court in Ankara has acquitted all defendants of murder in a trial involving the enforced disappearance or execution of 19 people in Turkey’s Southeast in the 1990s at the hands ...
The number of inmates in Turkey’s prisons who were either in pre-trial detention or convicted of a crime was 265,000 in 2018, a 14 percent increase over the previous year, according to data from the ...
The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Friday issued detention warrants for 84 current or former personnel of the Justice Ministry over alleged Gülen links, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. The police raided residences ...
China and Turkey were the world’s most prolific jailers of journalists in 2019, according to a special report released by the press freedom watchdog Committee to Protect Journalists this week. The report, described as “a snapshot of ...
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