Report sheds light on shrinking space for civil society in Turkey under state pressure
A report titled “Civil Society Organizations in Turkey: Freedom of Association and Right to Participation” sheds light on the ongoing restriction of the civil...
Turkish-backed Syrian rebels used child soldiers, pro-government think tank report reveals
Some 4 percent of the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army’s (SNA) ranks comprised child soldiers in the years prior to early 2020, according to a...
70 students briefly detained for attending Pride March at Boğaziçi University
Turkish police on Friday broke up a Pride March at Boğaziçi University in İstanbul, detaining 70 of the students for participating in the event,...
Stockholm University panel urges Turkey to restore the rule of law
Turkey should restore the rule of law immediately to address massive human rights violations that are unprecedented in scale and magnitude, the audience was...
UN Human Rights Council on death of Ebru Timtik : No one should have...
Special rapporteurs from the UN Human Rights Council in a statement issued on Wednesday condemned the preventable death of lawyer Ebru Timtik after a...
Man allegedly abducted by Turkish intel in İstanbul recounts details of torture
Gökhan Güneş, who returned home nearly a week after he was allegedly abducted by Turkish intelligence officers in broad daylight in İstanbul, has said...
7-months-pregnant woman imprisoned for past month in northwestern Turkey
Hatice Avuloğlu, 34, has been held in an Edirne prison since mid-August despite being seven months pregnant, the Kronos news website reported on Tuesday.
Avuloğlu...
Opposition deputy submits parliamentary inquiries regarding state negligence in murder of young woman
A deputy from the Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) has submitted three parliamentary inquiries following the murder of a female university student...
UN torture committee questions Turkey’s permanent state of emergency laws, treatment of detainees and...
The United Nations Committee Against Torture (CAT) has concluded its consideration of Turkey's fifth periodic report, highlighting significant concerns regarding the country's adherence to...
Appeals court upholds 22-year sentence given to former Kurdish MP
A regional appeals court in the southeastern Turkish province of Diyarbakır has upheld a prison sentence of 22 years, three months handed down to...
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