1,388 people victims of enforced disappearance in Turkey since 1980: report
A total of 1,388 people have been victims of enforced disappearance in Turkey in the last 40 years, according to the southeastern Diyarbakır branch...
Dismissed teacher reinstated 2 years after he died of cancer
Salman Taş, 57, a teacher who was fired from his job by a government decree without due process, has been reinstated two years after...
Protests against pro-gov’t company’s quarry in northern Turkey banned
The Governor’s Office of the Black Sea province of Rize has imposed a 15-day ban on demonstrations in one of its districts amid ongoing...
Turkey is ranked 48th among 49 countries on LGBT rights in rainbow index
Turkey was ranked 48th among 49 countries as regards the human rights of LGBT people, according to the 2021 Rainbow Europe Map published by the International...
Punitive actions by Turkey against anti-gov’t media at record high: report
Turkey’s Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) has imposed a record number of punitive measures against anti-government TV and radio stations in the two...
ECtHR faults Turkey for violating journalists’ right to freedom of expression
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Turkey violated the rights of two journalists who were jailed for reporting on the...
50 British MPs call for UK gov’t to stand up against human rights violations...
Fifty members of the British parliament last Thursday sent a letter to Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab voicing their concerns about the deterioration of human...
Wife of purge victim dies, leaving 2 children to the care of relatives
Another family has fallen victim to Turkey’s post-coup purge as the wife of Yusuf Coşkun, a former teacher who was arrested on terrorism charges,...
Another inmate dies of COVID-19 as cases continue to surge in Turkey’s overcrowded prisons
Şeref Vatansever, 47, a former computer science teacher dismissed from his job during a post-coup purge in Turkey, died of COVID-19 yesterday after contracting...
404 civilians killed by Turkish police since 2007: report
A total of 404 civilians have been shot dead by the police since a law was amended giving police officers more power in 2007,...
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