Jailed Turkish journalist slams discrimination done by CHP and TGC among jailed journalists
Jailed journalist Emre Soncan, who has been imprisoned in infamous Silivri Prison for 425 days, has complained about discrimination done by Turkey Journalists Association...
JWF urges United Nations to form an international commission to investigate Turkey’s controversial coup...
The New York-based Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF) in a statement released on Monday called on the United Nations to form an international commission...
Erdoğan says Turkey could suddenly launch operation against KRG
Amid an ongoing crisis over the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) decision to hold an independence referendum on Monday despite opposition from Turkey and the...
Turkey’s main opposition CHP deputy asks minister to resign over ‘Gülen propaganda’ in textbooks
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Mehmet Tüm has called on Turkish Minister of Education İsmet Yılmaz to resign, claiming that the...
Jailed Turkish journalist and singer Taş: My ideas even freer than a bird
Jailed columnist and singer Atilla Taş, who has been jailed over accusation of the membership to the Gülen movement, said in a letter he send...
Turkish court releases only journalist Gürsel in Cumhuriyet case
An İstanbul court on Monday ordered for the release of journalist Kadri Grürsel pending trial, all other imprisoned journalists and executives ordered to remain...
RSF reiterates call on Turkish-Swedish journalist Yalçın held in Spain under Turkish request to...
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has reiterated its appeal to the Spanish authorities not to extradite Hamza Yalçın to Turkey. A Swedish journalist of Turkish...
Novelist Aslı Erdoğan receives Erich Maria Remarque peace prize in Germany
Turkish novelist Aslı Erdoğan, who was released after 132 days in prison due to links to the pro-Kurdish Özgür Gündem daily and recently was...
Accounts of Erdoğanist Sabah daily seized in Germany
The accounts of pro-Erdoğan Sabah daily newspaper's edition in Germany were confiscated by the German Ministry of Finance because of some irregularities were detected...
CPJ calls on Turkey to find murderers of Syrian journalist, mother
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) called on the Turkish government to find those responsible for the murder of Syrian-American journalist Halla Barakat and...
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2022 in Review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2022. Authoritarianism continued to gain ground...
Pushbacks of Turkish asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey: Violation of the principle of...
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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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