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EP’s Harms: I have serious doubts about ECtHR’s attitude over cases from Turkey
Rebecca Harms, a member of the European Parliament and Co-President of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly, has said that she has serious doubts about the...
PPJ’s Gök: Erdoğan allies with ultra-nationalists to set up judiciary to persecute dissidents
Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan allied with ultra-nationalists to purge thousands of judges and prosecutors and set up new courts to target dissidents, wrote Uğur...
Turkish author Perihan Mağden: I feel like a Jew in Nazi Germany
Renowned Turkish author Perihan Mağden has assessed the anti-democratic practices and increasing pressures in Turkey and described the current period in Turkey by comparing...
Under suffocating climate created by Turkish gov’t Ankara University Human Rights Center closed
Turkish law professor, human rights and free speech activist Kerem Altıparmak has declared that Human Rights Center at Faculty of Political Sciences (SBF) of...
UN experts call for dropping of terror charges against leading human rights defenders
A group of United Nations experts including Annalisa Ciampi, Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Michel Forst, Special...
Barkey says Turkish FM undersecretary, embassy knew of Büyükada meeting
US academic Henri Barkey, who is being sought by a Turkish prosecutor for planning last year’s failed coup attempt during a secret meeting on...
Turkish gov’t issues detention warrant for US academic Barkey
The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued a detention warrant for academic Henri Barkey, director of the Middle East Program at the Washington-based...
Turkey Purge: 3,158 detained, 1,127 jailed in past 30 days over coup charges
A huge cleansing of Turkey’s state and other institutions is continuing as people from all walks of life find themselves being hunted down, taken...
Turkish court decides continuation of journalists’ imprisonments in Cumhuriyet daily case
An İstanbul court ordered on Tuesday for the continuation of imprisonments of Cumhuriyet daily's jailed journalists Murat Sabuncu, Ahmet Şık, the newspaper's CEO Akın Atalay,...
DROI chair calls on Turkey to reverse ongoing crackdown on civil society
Pier Antonio Panzeri, chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) in the European Parliament, welcomed the release of eight human rights activists by...
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