Cartoonist Trivedi takes part in campaign for release of HR defenders jailed in Turkey
A world famous political cartoonist and free speech activist Aseem Trivedi has launched a “cartoon campaign” for raising awareness on jailed human righst defenders in Turkey....
Prison sentence sought for Turkish cartoonist for ‘insulting sacred values’
An indictment is seeking up to 18-month jail sentence the cartoonist Seyfi Şahin, who used to work for the closed-down popular humor magazine Gırgır,...
Turkish court decides continuation of journalist Parıldak’s pre-trial imprisonment
An Ankara court has decided on Tuesday for the continuation of the imprisonment of journalist Ayşenur Parıldak, a former reporter from the now-closed Zaman...
Germany to get involved in jailed journalist Yücel’s case at ECtHR
Germany will support the arrested journalist Deniz Yücel’s case at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), demanding that Yücel be released, Die Welt reported on...
PEN: Never recorded so many writers in prison in one country at one time
PEN International, a worldwide association of writers, on Monday called on the Turkish government to stop abusing a state of emergency in force in...
Turkey’s Interior Ministry: 49 detained in one week due to social media posts
The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that 49 people have been detained over the past week on charges of disseminating propaganda on social...
Turkey extends state of emergency for 4th time
The Turkish Parliament has extended for three more months a state of emergency declared in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt in Turkey...
Turkey detains journalist Koray briefly for criticizing ‘July 15 saga’
Yeliz Koray, managing editor of the Kocaeli Koz newspaper, was briefly detained on Saturday night and referred to court for a critical article about...
33 Swedish media groups call on Erdoğan to free jailed journalists
The editors-chief of 33 media organizations in Sweden sent an open letter to Turkey's autocratic President Tayyip Erdoğan on the anniversary of a failed...
Turkish Armenian intellectual escapes from prison: The bird has flown
Sevan Nişanyan, a Turkish intellectual of Armenian origin who was imprisoned on Dec. 2, 2014 for “construction infractions,” announced in a tweet on Friday...
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2024.
Throughout the year Turkey continued...
Dehumanizing a Legacy: How Fethullah Gülen’s Death Triggered a Campaign of Hate Speech in...
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Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft
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This report focuses on how the Turkish government, under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has used family punishment against his opponents.
Sippenhaft, also known as...
Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review
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The May 2023 re-election of...