Kurdish leader’s right to liberty violated, says Turkey’s Constitutional Court
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the lengthy imprisonment of a former head of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) violated his rights, a...
Turkish Justice Ministry refuses to disclose number of torture, prisoner abuse claims
In response to a parliamentary question submitted by Republican People’s Party (CHP) Istanbul deputy and human rights defender Sezgin Tanrıkulu, Turkey’s Ministry of Justice...
Intruders break into house of Turkey’s Human Rights Association co-chair
Turkey’s Human Rights Association (IHD) announced in a press statement that unknown intruders broke into the house of Eren Keskin, a human rights activist...
AI: Turkish gov’t using COVID-19 pandemic as excuse to further stifle freedom of expression
The Turkish authorities are using criminal law provisions to target people who discuss the COVID-19 pandemic online from a critical perspective, according to a...
Members of Congress ask Pompeo to urge Turkish gov’t to release political prisoners
Three Democratic members of the US House of Representatives have recently sent letters to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo requesting that he urge the...
Ministry seizes elderly woman’s house she donated to Gülen-linked foundation
Turkey’s Culture and Tourism Ministry seized the house of an 87-year-old woman in the western province of Manisa because she donated it to a...
Turkey’s broadcasting watchdog bans Can Dündar’s news website again
The Özgürüz news website, run by prominent Turkish journalist Can Dündar, who has been living in self-imposed exile for a while now, was cut...
US House Foreign Affairs chairman urges release of political prisoners in Turkey
In a letter to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey, Chairman of the US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs Eliot Engel and...
Pro-Kurdish party starts ‘March to Protest the Coup against Democracy’
Members of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) started making their way to the capital, Ankara, yesterday from the southeastern province of Hakkari and...
Turkey orders detention of 174 active duty soldiers, 174 others in post-coup crackdown
Turkish prosecutors on Tuesday ordered the detention of 348 people as part of a post-coup crackdown targeting the faith-based Gülen movement, which is accused...
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This report focuses on how illegal pushbacks by Greek authorities have devastating consequences on Turkish asylum seekers upon their return to Turkey.
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